Tornado Warning 54, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Nov 26, 2001, 6:14 PM CST (00:14 UTC)

Expired

Nov 26, 2001, 7:00 PM CST

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, AR

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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WFUS54 KLZK 270014
TORLIT
ARC079-270100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 611 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STAR CITY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH
  OF WARREN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  STAR CITY AROUND 640 PM CST
  GRADY AROUND 650 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 3397 9155 3379 9180 3379 9196 3394 9196
          3410 9171

$$

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Nov 26, 3:00 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

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

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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ARZ003>007-013>016-022>025-031>034-038-039-042>047-053>057-062>069-
270215-

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

TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM...COVERING MOST OF EASTERN
AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE EXTREMELY UNSTABLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE
WATCH AREA. THE WATCH AREA PRECEDES A COLD FRONT THAT CONTINUES
TO MOVE EAST ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE
UNSTABLE CONDITIONS...ALONG WITH VERTICAL WIND PROFILES SUGGEST
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO 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 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.