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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 4, 1999Clark County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1999, 4:55 PM CDT for Clark County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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
May 4, 1999, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1999, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clark County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 4, 5:00 PM CDTHail 0.75Amity, AR
May 4, 5:05 PM CDTHail 0.88Bonnerdale, AR
May 4, 5:35 PM CDTHail 0.75Arkadelphia, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 4, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

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
May 4, 3:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott48 min
May 4, 5:24 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKLogan46 min
May 4, 5:44 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKJohnson51 min
May 4, 9:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski48 min
May 4, 10:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke49 min
May 4, 10:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite50 min
May 4, 1:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott47 min
May 4, 1:49 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKScott51 min
May 4, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott47 min
May 4, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJohnson, Newton47 min
May 4, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPike47 min
May 4, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPike37 min
May 4, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGarland50 min
May 4, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery34 min
May 4, 5:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Pope49 min
May 4, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk36 min
May 4, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark51 min
May 4, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKSaline42 min
May 4, 5:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKJohnson, Logan3 hr
May 4, 5:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBoone, Newton3 hr
May 4, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPope, Searcy49 min
May 4, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Perry, Pulaski50 min
May 4, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKClark31 min
May 4, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKHot Spring48 min
May 4, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski37 min
May 4, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Marion48 min
May 4, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKBaxter34 min
May 4, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGrant, Saline47 min
May 4, 6:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBaxter, Marion, Searcy3 hr
May 4, 6:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPope3 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.