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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 30, 1997Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1997, 12:09 AM CST for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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 30, 1997, 12:09 AM CST (06:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 1997, 12:55 AM CST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 00:00Z on 1997-03-30Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1997-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
243 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
Mar 30, 12:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson35 min
Mar 30, 2:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring38 min
Mar 30, 3:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDrew, Lincoln34 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.