Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2000, 6:32 PM CDT for Independence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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
- May 4, 2000, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Independence County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Walnut Grove, AR | A weak tornado touched down briefly near Walnut Grove in Independence County. The tornado caused only some minor tree damage. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
779 WFUS54 KLZK 042332 TORLIT ARC063-050000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 632 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... INDEPENDENCE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 626 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER MAGNESS...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF NEWARK...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SIGHTED BY THE PUBLIC. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A CONFIRMED TORNADO YET...BUT THERE MAY BE BEFORE LONG. FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO INDOORS NOW TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 30 min |
| May 3, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 41 min |
| May 4, 6:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant | 28 min |
| May 4, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 28 min |
| May 4, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Saline | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.