Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 1997, 6:24 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 14, 1997, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1997, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Clinton, AR | An F0 tornado touched down very briefly about 3 miles east-northeast of Clinton. The only damage noted along the path of the tornado was a few trees that were knocked down. |
| Aug 14, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Bee Branch, AR | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1052 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 9:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 42 min |
| Aug 14, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, White | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, White | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 66 min |
| Aug 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard | 63 min |
| Aug 14, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Van Buren | 47 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.