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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 3, 2000Independence County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 7:30 AM CST for Independence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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: Jan 3, 2000, 7:30 AM CST (13:30 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 8:20 AM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Independence County, AR

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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 486 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 513 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 7.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 031330
TORLIT
ARC063-031420-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
730 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  INDEPENDENCE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 820 AM CST

* AT 729 AM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF BATESVILLE OR IN THE VICINITY OF CUSHMAN... MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
SANDTOWN                     AROUND 733 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.

49/28

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, 6:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Scott	48 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, 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

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.