Tornado Warning 5, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Jan 3, 2000, 9:56 AM CST (15:56 UTC)

Expired

Jan 3, 2000, 10:30 AM CST

In force

34 min

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Whole counties

Counties Faulkner County, AR, Van Buren County, AR

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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 
TTAA00 KLIT 031556
TORLIT
ARC045-141-031630-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN VAN BUREN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  NORTHWESTERN FAULKNER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 1030 AM CST

* AT 955 AM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 16 MILES
  NORTH OF CONWAY OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAMASCUS... MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
DAMASCUS                     AROUND 1000 AM CST...
SOUTHSIDE                    AROUND 1000 AM CST...
BEE BRANCH                   AROUND 1000 AM CST...
MORGANTON                    AROUND 1005 AM 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.

49/28

NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jan 3, 2:30 AM CST, 7 hours 26 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
230 AM CST MON JAN 3 2000

MAJOR CONTRAST ACROSS STATE WITH VARIOUS MODES OF PCPN INCLUDED IN
UPCOMING FORECAST. SEVERE THREAT WILL BE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS THIS MORNING AS DRY SLOT MOVES ACROSS AREA AND TEMPS RISE
INTO THE 70S OVER MUCH OF AREA. VERY UNSTABLE AMS COULD RESULT WITH
POSSIBLE SQUALL LINE DEVELOPING. THEN LATE TONIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT
STRONG COLD ADVECTION WILL BRING MOISTURE AND A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW
OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS. LITTLE ACCUMULATION EXPECTED AS OF NOW
BECAUSE THERE WAS NO COLD AIR IN PLACE AND THE MOISTURE IS NOT
OVERRUNING MOISTURE FROM THE GULF BUT MOISTURE COMING FROM THE NORTH.
   MOS TEMPS ARE TOO COOL TODAY CENTRAL AND SOUTH. WITH IT 70
DEGREES AT 2 AM IN EL DORADO...TEMPS IN SOUTHERN AR SHOULD EASILY
REACY THE MID 70S THIS AFTERNOON WITH CLOSE TO 80 IN SOME SPOTS. AS
STATED EARLIER...THIS WILL MAKE SEVERE WEATHER A DISTINCT
POSSIBILITY IN PARTS OF THE STATE. (16)

PRELIMINARY CCF:
LIT 72/40/44/26  60/20/10/0
HOT 70/40/45/25  60/20/10/0
PBF 75/42/47/28  60/10/10/0
HRO 58/26/30/23  70/30/10/0

.LIT...NONE.

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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.