Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 5:55 PM CST for Dallas County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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, 5:55 PM CST (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dallas County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
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
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 12:05 PM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes before
ARZ003>009-012>018-020>026-030>033-037>045-050>055-059>062-070-071- 012000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1205 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS UNTIL 600 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST. THE WATCH COVERS THAT PART OF THE STATE GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM LEWISVILLE TO SHERIDAN TO JONESBORO. RATHER WARM AND VERY UNSTABLE AIR IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE ACROSS ARKANSAS. A COLD FRONT WILL ENTER WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE FRONT PUSHES FURTHER EASTWARD...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND INTENSIFY AHEAD OF IT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS AS THE AFTERNOON GOES ON. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STORMS...AS WELL AS ISOLATED TORNADOES. PERSONS ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS ARE URGED TO KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST FORECASTS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE TELEVISION...LOCAL CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET...RADIO STATION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 44
Local storm report, Mar 1, 1:15 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
115 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0105 PM WESTERN GROVE AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 NEWTON
28Local storm report, Mar 1, 5:54 PM CST, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
654 PM CDT SAT MAR 01 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0205 PM WESTERN GROVE AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 NEWTON
0250 PM NEWPORT AR TORNADO
03/01/97 JACKSON TORNADO ON HWY 14 W OF
NEWPORT REPORTED BY HAMS.
0325 PM 10 SW ARKADELPHIA AR TORNADO
03/01/97 CLARK TORNADO AT TRUCK STOP ON
HWY 53
0342 PM 2 S LITTLE ROCK AR
03/01/97 PULASKI FUNNEL CLOUD REPORT BY
HAMS ON CHICOT RD.
0343 PM LITTLE ROCK AR
03/01/97 PULASKI FUNNEL CLOUD REPORT BY
HAMS AT ARCH ST AND PRATT
RD.
0345 PM 2 SW ARKADELPHIA AR TORNADO
03/01/97 CLARK TORNADO 1/4 MI WEST OF I30
APPROACHING ARKADELPHIA
REPORT BY OES.
0346 PM ARKADELPHIA AR TORNADO
03/01/97 CLARK TORNADO REPORT AT OUACHITA
BAPTIST UNIV
0350 PM ANTIOCH AR WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 WHITE FUNNEL CLOUD AND POWER
LINES DOWN
0357 PM LITTLE ROCK AR TORNADO
03/01/97 PULASKI TORNADO AT HWY 5 AND 319
REPORTED BY HAMS.
0403 PM BENTON AR
03/01/97 SALINE DEBRIS FALLING ON WEST
SIDE OF BENTON.
0407 PM CABOT AR TORNADO
03/01/97 LONOKE POLES DOWN. PERSONS
TRAPPED IN VEHICLES.
0416 PM MALVERN AR
03/01/97 HOT SPRING FUNNEL CLOUD MOVING TOWARD
TRASKWOOD AND GLENROSE.
0425 PM MARSHALL AR
03/01/97 SEARCY VERY HEAVY RAIN REPORT BY
HAMS.
0430 PM BRYANT AR TORNADO
03/01/97 SALINE TORNADO SIGHTED SE OF
BRYANT
0435 PM DENMARK AR WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 JACKSON TREES DOWN...TREE ON A
HOUSE AND HWY CLOSED.
0443 PM JERUSALEM AR TORNADO
03/01/97 CONWAY
0443 PM JERUSALEM AR TORNADO
03/01/97 CONWAY *** 1 INJ ***
TORNADO ON HWY 9 NORTH OF
JERUSALEM REPORTED BY
MORRILTON PD.
0444 PM 5 E MALVERN AR
03/01/97 HOT SPRING FUNNEL CLOUD AND DEBRIS
FROM STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.
0445 PM APPLETON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 POPE
0446 PM LITTLE ROCK AR WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 PULASKI HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN
REPORTED BY HAMS NEAR I30
AND SCOTT HAMILTON RD.
0449 PM LITTLE ROCK AR TORNADO
03/01/97 PULASKI AT DIXON RD AND GRANIT
MOUNTAIN...TREES DOWN AND
VEHICLE DAMAGED REPORT BY
HAMS.
0455 PM AR .88 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 PULASKI NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT GRAVEL
RIDGE REPORT BY HAMS.
0456 PM BRYANT AR FLOODING
03/01/97 SALINE STREET FLOODING REPORT BY
HAMS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 6:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 33 min |
| 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 |
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.