Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1997, 6:26 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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 4, 1997, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Woodberry, AR |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 042326 RRA TORLIT ARC013-050000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 626 PM CDT FRI JUL 4 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS ...CALHOUN COUNTY AT 625 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAMPTON OR IN THE VICINITY OF WOODBERRY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... WOODBERRY AROUND 625 PM CDT ... HAMPTON AROUND 640 PM CDT ... HARRELL AROUND 650 PM CDT ... A DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TORNADO MEANS THAT THERE IS STRONG ROTATION WITHIN A STORM. THE STORM MAY NOT BE PRODUCING A TORNADO AT THE MOMENT...BUT IS EXPECTED TO DURING THE WARNING PERIOD. THE STORM MAY ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY HAIL AND DAMAGING $STRAIGHT LINE WIND. THOSE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE ADVISED TO SEEK SHELTER RIGHT AWAY. 45/44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 7:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Bradley | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.