Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1997, 2:22 PM CDT for Searcy County, Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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 10, 1997, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1997, 3:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Searcy County, AR, Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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 10, 2:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Witts Spgs, AR | Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 101921 RRA SVRLIT ARC129-141-102010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 222 PM CDT THU JUL 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 310 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS ...SEARCY COUNTY ...VAN BUREN COUNTY AT 220 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF CLINTON AND JUST NORTH OF MARSHALL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT CLINTON...CRABTREE...MARSHALL AND MORNING STAR. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...WITH SOME HAIL POSSIBLE. SOM E WIND DAMAGE MAY OCCUR...SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT...AND ASK THAT THE REPORT BE FORWARDED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 38/208/KAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 48 min |
| Jul 10, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 48 min |
| Jul 10, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 51 min |
| Jul 10, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 32 min |
| Jul 10, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.