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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 2:23 PM CST for Prairie County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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
- Feb 18, 2000, 2:23 PM CST (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 3:10 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prairie County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2:30 PM CST | Hail 1 | Slovak, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 519 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 495 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 182023 TORLIT ARC117-182110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 223 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN PRAIRIE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 310 PM CST * AT 222 PM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF STUTTGART OR 7 MILES WEST OF FAIRMOUNT... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... FAIRMOUNT AROUND 230 PM CST... SLOVAK AROUND 235 PM CST... ULM AROUND 240 PM CST... DE VALLS BLUFF AROUND 250 PM CST... BISCOE AROUND 255 PM CST... A DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TORNADO MEANS THAT THERE IS STRONG ROTATION WITHIN A STORM. THE STORM MAY NOT BE PRODUCING A TORNADO AT THE MOMENT. ..BUT IS EXPECTED TO DURING THE WARNING PERIOD. FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO INDOORS NOW TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 46/28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 7:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 37 min |
| Feb 18, 7:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 33 min |
| Feb 18, 10:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Feb 18, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 36 min |
| Feb 18, 10:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope | 47 min |
| Feb 18, 10:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 48 min |
| Feb 18, 11:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland | 36 min |
| Feb 18, 11:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Saline | 50 min |
| Feb 18, 12:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 49 min |
| Feb 18, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 50 min |
| Feb 18, 12:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 48 min |
| Feb 18, 12:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 50 min |
| Feb 18, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 48 min |
| Feb 18, 1:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Prairie | 47 min |
| Feb 18, 1:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe | 47 min |
| Feb 18, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 35 min |
| Feb 18, 1:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 51 min |
| Feb 18, 1:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 47 min |
| Feb 18, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 49 min |
| Feb 18, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 35 min |
| Feb 18, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Feb 18, 2:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe | 51 min |
| Feb 18, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 48 min |
| Feb 18, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 50 min |
| Feb 18, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 34 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.