Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1997, 4:10 PM CDT for Clark County, Arkansas. It was in force for 65 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 23, 1997, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 4:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Arkadelphia, AR | Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and power lines at several locations in Arkadelphia. |
| Jul 23, 4:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Gum Spgs, AR | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. |
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 2014 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 64 min |
| Jul 23, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 65 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.