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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 21, 1999White County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 1999, 8:23 PM CST for White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 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: Jan 21, 1999, 8:23 PM CST (02:23 UTC)
Expired: Jan 21, 1999, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County White County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 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.

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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 725 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

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

999 
WFUS1 KLIT 220222 RRA
TORLIT
ARC145-220315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
823 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WHITE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CST

* AT 823 PM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES
  EAST OF SEARCY OR 5 MILES WEST OF WORDEN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
WORDEN                       AROUND 825 PM CST...
VELVET RIDGE                 AROUND 830 PM CST...
RUSSELL                      AROUND 830 PM CST...
BRADFORD                     AROUND 835 PM CST...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...HEAD INDOORS NOW. GO TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PUT AS MANY WALLS
BETWEEN YOURSELF AND THE OUTDOORS AS YOU CAN. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES NOW.
MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING OR UNDERGROUND SHELTER. IF THERE ARE NO
BUILDINGS NEARBY...LIE IN A DITCH TO AVOID FLYING DEBRIS. BUT BEWARE
OF RISING WATER.

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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, 4:32 PM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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

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

0315 PM    CONWAY                    AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   FAULKNER

0427 PM    VILONIA                   AR
01/21/99   FAULKNER                       FUNNEL CLOUD.

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 7:20 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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

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

0330 PM    HOT SPGS                  AR   3.5 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   GARLAND                        LARGER THAN TEA CUPS

0425 PM    VILONIA                   AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   FAULKNER

0430 PM    1 SW AMITY                AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   CLARK

0430 PM    8 E ROSE BUD              AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   WHITE                          MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED AND
                                          DESTROYED IN BLACK JACK
                                          MOUNTAIN AREA.

0430 PM    MAUMELLE                  AR   2.5 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   PULASKI                        TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL

0430 PM    AMITY                     AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   CLARK

0434 PM    PRINCETON                 AR
01/21/99   DALLAS                         FUNNEL CLOUD

0435 PM    MAUMELLE                  AR   2 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   PULASKI

0437 PM    MORGAN                    AR   2.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   PULASKI                        BASEBALL SIZE HAIL

0437 PM    MAUMELLE                  AR
01/21/99   PULASKI                        FUNNEL CLOUD

0438 PM    2 N HUMPHREY              AR
01/21/99   JEFFERSON                      FUNNEL CLOUD

0440 PM    MAUMELLE                  AR   4.5 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   PULASKI                        SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL

0445 PM    3 N OTTO                  AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   FAULKNER

0449 PM    4 W JACKSONVILLE          AR
01/21/99   PULASKI                        FUNNEL CLOUD

0450 PM    2 E STUTTGART             AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   ARKANSAS

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 7:33 PM CST, 50 minutes before

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

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

0453 PM    5 W SEARCY                AR
01/21/99   WHITE                          FUNNEL CLOUD

0453 PM    5 N SEARCY                AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   WHITE                          REPORTED AT HOLLY
                                          SPRINGS...AMBULANCES SENT
                                          TO THE SCENE. TORNADO
                                          DAMAGE REPORTED LATER AT
                                          BRADFORD.

0455 PM    5 N MACON                 AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   PULASKI                        TREES DOWN
0455 PM    5 N MACON                 AR   3 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   PULASKI                        TEA CUP SIZE HAIL

0457 PM    DAISY                     AR
01/21/99   PIKE                           FUNNEL CLOUD

0500 PM    2 W CABOT                 AR
01/21/99   LONOKE                         FUNNEL CLOUD

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 7:50 PM CST, 33 minutes before

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

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

0502 PM    ROE                       AR
01/21/99   MONROE                         FUNNEL CLOUD

0508 PM    CONWAY                    AR   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   FAULKNER

0509 PM    7 WSW PINE BLUFF          AR   2.5 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   JEFFERSON                      TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL

0509 PM    2 E CLARENDON             AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   MONROE

0509 PM    2 E CLARENDON             AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   MONROE

0510 PM    OIL TROUGH                AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   INDEPENDENCE                   VEHICLES BLOWN OFF THE
                                          ROAD...POSSIBLE INJURIES

0511 PM    2 S CONWAY MUNI ARPT      AR   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   FAULKNER

0513 PM    5 S BRINKLEY              AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   MONROE

0513 PM    5 S BRINKLEY              AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   MONROE

0519 PM    BRINKLEY                  AR   2 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   MONROE                         HEN EGG SIZE HAIL

0519 PM    WHITEHALL                 AR
01/21/99   JEFFERSON                      FUNNEL CLOUD

0520 PM    CENTER HILL               AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   WHITE                          *** 1 DEAD ***

0520 PM    2 E SAMPLES               AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   JEFFERSON                      BUILDING DAMAGED AND TREES
                                          DOWN AT THE PINE BLUFF
                                          ARSENAL.

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 8:12 PM CST, 11 minutes before

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

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

0520 PM    PLEASANT PLAINS           AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   CLEBURNE

0520 PM    BRYANT                    AR
01/21/99   SALINE                         FUNNEL CLOUD

0523 PM    1 W SEARCY                AR
01/21/99   WHITE                          FUNNEL CLOUD

0524 PM    1 N BRINKLEY              AR   .88 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   MONROE

0525 PM    5 W CONWAY                AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   FAULKNER

0525 PM    2 SE BRINKLEY             AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   MONROE

0529 PM    2 S PASTORIA              AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   JEFFERSON

0530 PM    JUDSONIA                  AR
01/21/99   WHITE                          FUNNEL CLOUD

0535 PM    2 E HUMPHREY              AR
01/21/99   ARKANSAS                       FUNNEL CLOUD

0535 PM    TUCKER                    AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   JEFFERSON

0538 PM    PLAINVIEW                 AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   WHITE

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Local storm report, Jan 21, 8:23 PM CST, 0 minutes before

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

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

0550 PM    SWIFTON                   AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   JACKSON

0602 PM    7 SSW AUGUSTA             AR
01/21/99   WOODRUFF                       FUNNEL CLOUD

0605 PM    1 W SLOVAK                AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   PRAIRIE

0605 PM    OIL TROUGH                AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   INDEPENDENCE

0605 PM    OIL TROUGH                AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   INDEPENDENCE

0616 PM    2 N SLOVAK                AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   PRAIRIE                        A FUNNEL CLOUD ALSO

0629 PM    4 S HAZEN                 AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   PRAIRIE

0630 PM    VIMY RIDGE                AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   SALINE

0634 PM    LITTLE ROCK               AR
01/21/99   PULASKI                        FUNNEL CLOUD

0635 PM    SARDIS                    AR   TORNADO
01/21/99   SALINE

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 21, 6:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	34 min
Jan 21, 6:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	50 min
Jan 21, 6:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	48 min
Jan 21, 6:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring	50 min
Jan 21, 6:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	47 min
Jan 21, 6:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant	48 min
Jan 21, 6:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie, Woodruff	50 min
Jan 21, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	49 min
Jan 21, 6:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	33 min
Jan 21, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Pike	49 min
Jan 21, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	49 min
Jan 21, 6:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke	48 min
Jan 21, 6:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleburne, White	51 min
Jan 21, 7:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	31 min
Jan 21, 7:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	49 min
Jan 21, 7:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	47 min
Jan 21, 7:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	32 min
Jan 21, 7:33 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	3 hr
Jan 21, 7:33 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark	3 hr
Jan 21, 7:33 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, White	3 hr
Jan 21, 7:33 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Pulaski	3 hr
Jan 21, 7:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	48 min
Jan 21, 7:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	50 min
Jan 21, 7:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	49 min
Jan 21, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	51 min
Jan 21, 8:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	51 min
Jan 21, 8:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	48 min
Jan 21, 8:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe	47 min
Jan 21, 8:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	49 min
Jan 21, 8:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	63 min
Jan 21, 8:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Pike	49 min
Jan 21, 8:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	45 min
Jan 21, 8:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	49 min
Jan 21, 8:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jackson	34 min
Jan 21, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	32 min
Jan 21, 9:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	51 min
Jan 21, 9:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	50 min
Jan 21, 9:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope, Van Buren	36 min
Jan 21, 10:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, White	50 min
Jan 21, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	50 min
Jan 21, 10:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White	3 hr
Jan 21, 10:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence	3 hr
Jan 21, 10:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Saline	3 hr
Jan 21, 10:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	49 min
Jan 21, 10:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	52 min
Jan 21, 11:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	31 min
Jan 21, 11:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	48 min
Jan 22, 12:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	51 min
Jan 22, 12:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	35 min
Jan 22, 12:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	48 min
Jan 22, 1:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Ouachita	61 min
Jan 22, 1:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	34 min
Jan 22, 1:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun	48 min
Jan 22, 1:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	46 min
Jan 22, 1:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring	50 min
Jan 22, 2:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew, Lincoln	65 min
Jan 22, 2:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	51 min
Jan 22, 2:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun	66 min
Jan 22, 2:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson	65 min
Jan 22, 2:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	50 min
Jan 22, 2:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	36 min
Jan 22, 3:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	51 min
Jan 22, 3:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha	47 min
Jan 22, 3:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie	64 min
Jan 22, 3:36 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	34 min
Jan 22, 7:21 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	White	3 hr
Jan 22, 7:21 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	3 hr
Jan 22, 7:21 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	3 hr

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.