Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 6:51 PM CDT for Perry County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1997, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1997, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Perry County, AR, Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Benton, AR | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 261 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.
- 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
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
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
ARZ003>007-012>017-020>028-030>049-054>058-100400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 450 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL 11 PM... A WEAK COLD FRONT WAS APPROACHING ARKANSAS FROM SOUTHERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...THE ATMOSPHERE WAS VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE...WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL 11 PM. THE WATCH INCLUDES AREAS NORTH OF MENA...HOT SPRINGS AND PINE BLUFF. STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE IN THE WATCH AREA WILL PRODUCE STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS. DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS ALSO POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY THROUGH THIS EVENING...AND WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER. PREPARE TO SEEK SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. 46
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:51 PM CDT, 2 hours before
ARZ003>007-012>017-020>028-030>049-054>058-100400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 450 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL 11 PM... A WEAK COLD FRONT WAS APPROACHING ARKANSAS FROM SOUTHERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...THE ATMOSPHERE WAS VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE...WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL 11 PM. THE WATCH INCLUDES AREAS NORTH OF MENA...HOT SPRINGS AND PINE BLUFF. STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE IN THE WATCH AREA WILL PRODUCE STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS. DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER IS ALSO POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY THROUGH THIS EVENING...AND WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER. PREPARE TO SEEK SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. 46
Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 PULASKI TWO TREES DOWN WITH
POWER OUTAGES
34Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
520 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
517 PM LITTLE ROCK AR 1.00 HAIL
07/09/97 PULASKI REPORTED BY CHANNEL 4
AT BASELINE AND CHICOT
ROADS
34Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
520 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
517 PM LITTLE ROCK AR 1.00 HAIL
07/09/97 PULASKI REPORTED BY CHANNEL 4
AT BASELINE AND CHICOT
ROADS
34The 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, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 49 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.