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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 26, 2001Clark County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 4:17 PM CST for Clark County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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: Nov 26, 2001, 4:17 PM CST (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Nov 26, 2001, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clark County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 26, 1:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

810 
WFUS54 KLZK 262218
TORLIT
ARC019-262245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
417 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 414 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER CURTIS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF ARKADELPHIA...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GRIFFITHTOWN AROUND 435 PM CST
  JOAN AROUND 440 PM CST

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.


LAT...LON 3401 9315 3389 9307 3397 9296 3413 9289
          3414 9303

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 26, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	32 min
Nov 26, 4:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Ouachita	33 min
Nov 26, 4:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun	45 min
Nov 26, 5:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	42 min
Nov 26, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Bradley	37 min
Nov 26, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson	46 min
Nov 26, 5:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland	32 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.