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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 13, 2000Prairie County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:38 PM CST for Prairie County, Arkansas. It was in force for 17 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
Feb 13, 2000, 6:38 PM CST (00:38 UTC)
Expired
Feb 13, 2000, 6:55 PM CST
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Prairie County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2000-02-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 624 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2000-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
624 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1332 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
5.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 140038
TORLIT
ARC117-140055-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
638 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PRAIRIE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 655 PM CST

* AT 636 PM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES
  EAST OF HAZEN OR IN THE VICINITY OF BISCOE... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
BISCOE                       AROUND 637 PM CST...
BRASFIELD                    AROUND 640 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.

49/45

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 13, 6:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff48 min
Feb 13, 6:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson50 min
Feb 13, 6:34 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKMonroe66 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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.