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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 13, 2000Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 5:04 PM CST for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 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: Feb 13, 2000, 5:04 PM CST (23:04 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2000, 6:05 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Faulkner County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 13, 5:07 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Vilonia, 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 nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 656 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 708 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 132304
TORLIT
ARC045-140005-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
513 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FAULKNER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 605 PM CST

* AT 513 PM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF CONWAY OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTO... MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN MOSTLY IN RURAL AREAS.

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.

45/49

The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 3:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	40 min
Feb 13, 4:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	59 min
Feb 13, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Perry	57 min
Feb 13, 5:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	60 min
Feb 13, 5:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke	48 min
Feb 13, 5:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie	48 min
Feb 13, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	46 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.