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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 9, 1997Newton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 3:26 PM CDT for Newton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 1997, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Newton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 320 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 11:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 11:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	41 min
Jul 9, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	34 min
Jul 9, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	47 min
Jul 9, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	65 min
Jul 9, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	47 min
Jul 9, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	49 min
Jul 9, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	32 min
Jul 9, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	50 min
Jul 9, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	48 min
Jul 9, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	51 min
Jul 9, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson	61 min
Jul 9, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	48 min
Jul 9, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	34 min
Jul 9, 6:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	2 hr
Jul 9, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Perry, Saline	49 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.