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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 1, 1997Independence County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1997, 4:54 PM CST for Independence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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, 4:54 PM CST (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 1997, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Independence County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 12:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 012254
TORLIT
ARC063-012330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
454 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS

   ...NORTHWESTERN INDEPENDENCE COUNTY
 
AT 453 PM CST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR 9
MILES NORTHWEST OF BATESVILLE OR 7 MILES WEST OF SANDTOWN MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
SANDTOWN                     AROUND 455 PM CST  ...

IF YOU ARE AT HOME AND IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. AS A LAST RESORT...LAY IN A BATHTUB. COVER YOUR
BODY WITH A MATTRESS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS. THOSE IN MOBILE HOMES
SHOULD MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. IF YOU ARE
OUTDOORS...AND NO BUILDINGS ARE AVAILABLE...LAY IN A DITCH OR CULVERT
TO AVOID FLYING DEBRIS. BUT BEWARE OF RISING WATER.

28/209

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, 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.