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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 15, 1997Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1997, 3:17 PM CDT for Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports 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 15, 1997, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1997, 3:50 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Yell County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 15, 3:30 PM CDTHail 0.75Havana, AR
Jul 15, 3:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Danville, ARThunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of several buildings.

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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1997-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1997-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy51 min
Jul 14, 7:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKMarion2 hr
Jul 14, 8:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKSearcy2 hr
Jul 14, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton58 min
Jul 14, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton32 min
Jul 14, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp65 min
Jul 14, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter47 min
Jul 14, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard48 min
Jul 14, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren51 min
Jul 14, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope47 min
Jul 15, 2:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff48 min
Jul 15, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe63 min
Jul 15, 3:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie49 min
Jul 15, 6:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas47 min
Jul 15, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott48 min
Jul 15, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell37 min
Jul 15, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott47 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.