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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 10, 1997Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1997, 2:37 PM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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 10, 1997, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1997, 3:25 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, AR

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 10, 11:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 10, 11:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 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 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, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy, Van Buren	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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997 Every 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.