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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 10, 1997Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1997, 2:59 PM CDT for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 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, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1997, 3:50 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Faulkner County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Enola, AR	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees and 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 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 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 10, 11:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 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, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.