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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 26, 2001Cleveland County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 5:58 PM CST for Cleveland 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: Nov 26, 2001, 5:58 PM CST (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Nov 26, 2001, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cleveland County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.

401 
WFUS54 KLZK 262359
TORLIT
ARC025-270030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CLEVELAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 556 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RYE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  WARREN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RYE AROUND 615 PM CST

&&

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 MOBILES
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.

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

LAT...LON 3372 9198 3372 9221 3395 9198

$$

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Nov 26, 3:00 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 3:00 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
300 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001

A RATHER COMPLEX WEATHER SCENARIO CONTINUES TO UNFOLD. SEVERE WEATHER
TONIGHT WILL MOVE OUT AND MAKE WAY FOR A SIGNIFICANT WINTRY WEATHER
EPISODE BEGINING AS EARLY AS TUESDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUING THROUGH
MOST OF WEDNESDAY. 8H TEMPS AND THICKNESS VALUES INDICATE SNOW OVER
MOST SECTIONS.

FCSTID = 38

.LZK...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 26, 1:07 PM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes before

ARZ052>057-062>069-270000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
107 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001

TORNADO WATCH 824 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT
FOR AN AREA...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GLENWOOD...TO
STUTTGART.

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO QUICKLY BECOME UNSTABLE THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WATCH AREA...AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT...MOVING EAST
ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE UNSTABLE
CONDITIONS...ALONG WITH VERTICAL WIND PROFILES SUGGEST THUNDERSTORMS
THAT FORM AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WILL DEVELOP QUICKLY...AND WILL
LIKELY BECOME SUPERCELLS.  THE SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND
TORNADOES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION OR RADIO
STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS
CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

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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
Nov 26, 4:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark	28 min
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

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.