Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 6:22 AM CST for Monroe County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 6:22 AM CST (12:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 6:55 AM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:23 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 12:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 12:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 12:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 12:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 1:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 1:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion, Searcy | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 64 min |
| Mar 1, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 52 min |
| Mar 1, 2:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 2:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin, Johnson | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 2:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 2:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 2:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 2:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 2:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 3:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan, Yell | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Saline | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 64 min |
| Mar 1, 3:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 3:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 61 min |
| Mar 1, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Stone | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 4:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | White | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 4:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard | 64 min |
| Mar 1, 4:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Independence | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Sharp | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jackson | 19 min |
| Mar 1, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.