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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 11:29 PM CDT for Arkansas County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 min. 5 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
- May 12, 2000, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Arkansas County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 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 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Tichnor, AR | |
| May 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Gillett, AR | |
| May 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Gillett, AR | |
| May 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Gillett, AR | |
| May 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Gillett, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
448 WFUS54 KLZK 130430 TORLIT ARC001-130515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1129 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ARKANSAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALMYRA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HUMPHREY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE AREA. 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. 32/16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 32 min |
| May 12, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 58 min |
| May 12, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 46 min |
| May 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 60 min |
| May 12, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 40 min |
| May 12, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone | 54 min |
| May 12, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery | 35 min |
| May 12, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 40 min |
| May 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 60 min |
| May 12, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 54 min |
| May 12, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 59 min |
| May 12, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 52 min |
| May 12, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 65 min |
| May 12, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 62 min |
| May 12, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 59 min |
| May 12, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 56 min |
| May 12, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 48 min |
| May 12, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 56 min |
| May 12, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 32 min |
| May 12, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Prairie | 59 min |
| May 12, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 56 min |
| May 12, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 25 min |
| May 12, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 67 min |
| May 12, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 64 min |
| May 12, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke | 58 min |
| May 12, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 50 min |
| May 12, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 116 min |
| May 12, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 40 min |
| May 12, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 37 min |
| May 13, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 40 min |
| May 13, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 63 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.