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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 21, 1999Dallas County, Ouachita County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 1999, 4:13 PM CST for Dallas County, Ouachita County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min. 3 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: Jan 21, 1999, 4:13 PM CST (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jan 21, 1999, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dallas County, AR, Ouachita County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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
Jan 21, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado F1	Holly Spgs, AR
Jan 21, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado F3	Princeton, AR
Jan 21, 4:49 PM CST	Hail 1.25	Holly Spgs, 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
Jan 21, 2:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 941 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 21, 3:32 PM CST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
332 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0305 PM    GLENWOOD                  AR   WIND DAMAGE
01/21/99   PIKE                           TREE DOWN ON A ROAD.

0322 PM    1 N HOT SPGS              AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   GARLAND                        GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.

0323 PM    CONWAY                    AR   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   FAULKNER

0327 PM    CONWAY                    AR   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   FAULKNER                       NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL.
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Local storm report, Jan 21, 3:40 PM CST, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
340 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0325 PM    HOT SPGS                  AR   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   GARLAND                        HAIL COVERED THE GROUND
                                          AND TURNED THE GROUND
                                          WHITE.

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 3:49 PM CST, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
349 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0341 PM    7 E CONWAY                AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   FAULKNER

0342 PM    VILONIA                   AR
01/21/99   FAULKNER                       FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFFS DEPUTY AND
                                          SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE
                                          PUBLIC.

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 3:56 PM CST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
356 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0349 PM    VILONIA                   AR
01/21/99   FAULKNER                       CONTINUED REPORTS OF
                                          FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR VILONIA
                                          FROM THE SHERIFFS DEPT.

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 4:01 PM CST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
401 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0357 PM    MT VERNON                 AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   FAULKNER                       TORNADO REPORTED BY STATE
                                          TROOPER.

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 4:07 PM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
407 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0404 PM    ROMANCE                   AR
01/21/99   WHITE                          STATE TROOPER REPORTED
                                          THAT THE TORNADO REPORTED
                                          NEAR MT. VERNON HAD LIFTED
                                          AND BECOME A FUNNEL CLOUD.

0405 PM    TARRY                     AR
01/21/99   LINCOLN                        FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFFS DEPT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 21, 2:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	49 min
Jan 21, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	51 min
Jan 21, 2:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	34 min
Jan 21, 2:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	33 min
Jan 21, 2:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pike	35 min
Jan 21, 2:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	50 min
Jan 21, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	49 min
Jan 21, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark	49 min
Jan 21, 3:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	36 min
Jan 21, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland	35 min
Jan 21, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	48 min
Jan 21, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lincoln	48 min
Jan 21, 3:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	50 min
Jan 21, 3:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	50 min
Jan 21, 3:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	51 min
Jan 21, 3:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	37 min
Jan 21, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	50 min
Jan 21, 4:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	34 min
Jan 21, 4:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	49 min
Jan 21, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	35 min
Jan 21, 4:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	50 min
Jan 21, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	51 min
Jan 21, 4:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	49 min
Jan 21, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	50 min
Jan 21, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant	50 min
Jan 21, 4:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	47 min
Jan 21, 4:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe	48 min
Jan 21, 4:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	52 min
Jan 21, 5:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jefferson	49 min
Jan 21, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	34 min
Jan 21, 5:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	50 min
Jan 21, 5:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	48 min
Jan 21, 5:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	51 min
Jan 21, 5:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke	48 min
Jan 21, 5:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	51 min
Jan 21, 5:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	48 min
Jan 21, 5:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie	47 min
Jan 21, 5:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	33 min
Jan 21, 5:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	51 min

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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.