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Tornado Warning 76, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 26, 1999Pope County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1999, 2:19 PM CDT for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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
Apr 26, 1999, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1999, 3:05 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pope County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 26, 12:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1999-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 248 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1999-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark51 min
Apr 25, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita50 min
Apr 25, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas49 min
Apr 25, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring50 min
Apr 25, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita47 min
Apr 25, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant49 min
Apr 25, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun62 min
Apr 25, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson62 min
Apr 25, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland49 min
Apr 25, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley62 min
Apr 25, 11:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKDesha, Drew3 hr
Apr 26, 11:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark48 min
Apr 26, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring48 min
Apr 26, 12:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland48 min
Apr 26, 12:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery48 min
Apr 26, 12:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk64 min
Apr 26, 12:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSaline49 min
Apr 26, 12:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Scott51 min
Apr 26, 12:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring48 min
Apr 26, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope50 min
Apr 26, 1:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski47 min
Apr 26, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland49 min
Apr 26, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark48 min
Apr 26, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSaline48 min
Apr 26, 1:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring47 min
Apr 26, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPerry48 min
Apr 26, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas47 min
Apr 26, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski50 min
Apr 26, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Yell47 min
Apr 26, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant47 min
Apr 26, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley48 min
Apr 26, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Perry64 min
Apr 26, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson60 min
Apr 26, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski65 min
Apr 26, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren62 min
Apr 26, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland36 min
Apr 26, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke48 min
Apr 26, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Prairie47 min
Apr 26, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite65 min
Apr 26, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe50 min
Apr 26, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff51 min
Apr 26, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha34 min
Apr 26, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas36 min
Apr 26, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson66 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.