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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 28, 1997Garland County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 6:21 PM CDT for Garland County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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 28, 1997, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1997, 7:10 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 281 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 1997-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2045 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
2045 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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 28, 1:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKVan Buren2 hr
Jul 28, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson49 min
Jul 28, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite50 min
Jul 28, 2:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKWhite2 hr
Jul 28, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.