Tornado Warning 30, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Mar 26, 2000, 7:50 PM CST (01:50 UTC)

Expired

Mar 26, 2000, 8:40 PM CST

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Whole counties

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Prairie County, AR

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WFUS54 KLZK 270149
TORLIT
ARC001-085-117-270240-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
750 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LONOKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  SOUTHERN PRAIRIE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  ARKANSAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 840 PM CST

* AT 748 PM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF STUTTGART... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. FENNEL CLOUDS
  HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORM ALONG WITH UP TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
HUMNOKE                      AROUND 800 PM CST...
STUTTGART                    AROUND 810 PM CST...
LODGE CORNER                 AROUND 825 PM CST...
ALMYRA                       AROUND 830 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.

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Mar 26, 3:19 PM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
319 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

A WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHWARD ACROSS ARKANSAS. WARMER AND
MORE HUMID AIR FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO IS THEREFORE BECOMING MORE
NOTICEABLE AND SPREADING FARTHER INTO THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS
THIS AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD
ACROSS KANSAS TOWARDS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. A VORTICITY MAXIMA AND AN
AREA OF HIGHER MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY MOVING INTO NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS
HAVE SET OFF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWESTERN
ARKANSAS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES TOWARDS US. SOME STORMS COULD POSSIBLY
BECOME SEVERE TONIGHT. COOLER AND BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL MARK THE
FRONTAL PASSAGE TONIGHT.
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.LIT...NONE.

In the hours before

ARZ003>006-012>015-021>024-030>033-037>045-052>056-062-063-066-067-
270400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
420 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL
ARKANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CST...

WARM TEMPERATURES AS WELL AS MOIST AIR MOVING NORTH FROM THE GULF OF
MEXICO HAVE COMBINED TO PROVIDE AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER ARKANSAS.
IN ADDITION...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE THIS
EVENING. THE FRONT WILL BE A FOCUS FOR STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE AHEAD OF
THE FRONT AS WELL.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH GENERALLY COVERS AREAS OF ARKANSAS WEST
OF A LINE FROM MAMMOTH SPRING TO SEARCY TO PINE BLUFF AND NORTH OF A
LINE FROM ASHDOWN TO HOPE TO CAMDEN TO FORDYCE.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED IN THE WATCH AREA. THE
MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING>
WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

INDIVIDUALS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR SEVERE WEATHER
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER
IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

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

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.