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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 6:27 AM CST for Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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 3, 2000, 6:27 AM CST (12:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 7:15 AM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:29 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 6:40 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Waldron, AR | |
| Jan 3, 6:40 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Waldron, 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 3, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 266 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 834 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 031227 TORLIT ARC127-031315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 627 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCOTT COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 715 AM CST * AT 626 AM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WALDRON OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF CAUTHRON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... CAUTHRON AROUND 630 AM CST... WINFIELD AROUND 630 AM CST... HON AROUND 635 AM CST... WALDRON AROUND 635 AM CST... ABBOTT AROUND 640 AM 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. 25
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 33 min |
| Jan 3, 4:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 5:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Scott, Yell | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 5:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 48 min |
| Jan 3, 5:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Searcy, Van Buren | 65 min |
| Jan 3, 5:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton, Searcy | 46 min |
| Jan 3, 6:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 6:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion, Stone | 62 min |
| Jan 3, 6:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 6:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 65 min |
| Jan 3, 6:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 46 min |
| Jan 3, 6:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 48 min |
| Jan 3, 6:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Sharp | 51 min |
| Jan 3, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 7:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Independence | 50 min |
| Jan 3, 8:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 51 min |
| Jan 3, 9:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 52 min |
| Jan 3, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 9:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Van Buren | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 10:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 10:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Stone | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 10:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 11:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 11:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 20 min |
| Jan 3, 12:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 33 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.