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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 24, 2001Grant County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 3:13 PM CST for Grant County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2001, 3:13 PM CST (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2001, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Grant County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 456 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 552 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLZK 242113
TORLIT
ARC053-125-242145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
313 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  NORTHWEST GRANT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 302 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER POYEN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF HASKELL...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TULL AND SHERIDAN AROUND 320 PM CST
  BAUXITE AROUND 335 PM CST
  ALEXANDER AND BRYANT AROUND 345 PM CST

&&

A DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TORNADO MEANS THERE IS A 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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

LAT...LON 3407 9224 3422 9224 3434 9220 3449 9220
          3450 9229 3453 9226 3467 92x44 3446 9267
          3415 9267 3415 9251 3413 9242 3407 9234

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	57 min
Feb 24, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	62 min
Feb 24, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	62 min
Feb 24, 2:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	47 min
Feb 24, 2:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton	63 min
Feb 24, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	35 min
Feb 24, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	57 min
Feb 24, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	67 min
Feb 24, 2:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring, Saline	46 min
Feb 24, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	30 min
Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Pope	60 min
Feb 24, 3:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	46 min
Feb 24, 3:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	56 min
Feb 24, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Yell	64 min
Feb 24, 3:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	67 min
Feb 24, 3:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke	50 min
Feb 24, 4:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	41 min
Feb 24, 4:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Searcy, Stone, Van Buren	38 min
Feb 24, 4:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	35 min
Feb 24, 4:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	47 min
Feb 24, 4:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard	67 min
Feb 24, 4:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie, White	43 min
Feb 24, 4:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Saline	63 min
Feb 24, 4:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski	63 min
Feb 24, 4:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Stone, Van Buren	63 min
Feb 24, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke	50 min
Feb 24, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Grant	46 min
Feb 24, 5:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	29 min
Feb 24, 5:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	30 min
Feb 24, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jackson	37 min
Feb 24, 5:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Drew	46 min
Feb 24, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, White	56 min
Feb 24, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	56 min
Feb 24, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson	43 min
Feb 24, 5:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha	51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.