Tornado Warning 1, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Jan 23, 2002, 4:15 PM CST (22:15 UTC)

Expired

Jan 23, 2002, 4:50 PM CST

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

000 
WFUS54 KLZK 232215
TORLIT
ARC071-083-232250-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
415 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS
  EASTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 450 PM CST

* AT 407 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF SCRANTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  CLARKSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KNOXVILLE AND LAMAR AROUND 430 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.

LAT...LON 3555 9322 3548 9322 3547 9329 3528 9328
          3517 9353 3532 9364

$$

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jan 23, 4:00 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
400 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002

WARM HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIR IS IN PLACE IN MOST OF THE CWA AT ISSUE
TIME WAITING FOR THE COLD FRONT AND A SHORT WAVE IN SOUTHWEST FLOW
TO ARRIVE. THUNDERSTORMS IN OKLAHOMA SHOULD REACH INTO ARKANSAS THIS
EVENING AND SHOULD SEE INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORMS EARLY TONIGHT WITH
SOME SEVERE WEATHER LIKELY. WILL HAVE LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS FOR
TONIGHT WITH MENTION OF SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN. SEVERE AND HEAVY RAIN
THREAT SHOULD BE OUT OF THE CWA BY 12Z THURSDAY AS THE COLD FRONT
SHOULD BE MOSTLY OUT OF THE AREA. TEMPS WILL LIKELY STAY WELL INTO THE
60S THROUGH THE NIGHT UNTIL THE FRONT PASSES THEN TEMPS SHOULD DROP
TO NEAR FWC MINS. CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE REMAINS ON THURSDAY AS THE MAIN
UPPER TROF HANGS OUT TO THE WEST. WILL KEEP HIGH POPS GOING THROUGH
THURSDAY...BUT THE AIR SHOULD BE COOLER AND MORE STABLE...SO
PRECIPITATION  SHOULD BE MOSTLY RAIN. ENOUGH INSTABILITY REMAINS IN
THE SOUTHEAST IN THE MORNING TO CONTINUE A MENTION OF THUNDER THERE.
TEMPS SHOULD RISE LITTLE ON THURSDAY. WILL CONTINUE POPS INTO
THURSDAY NIGHT FOR LIGHT RAIN WITH CLOUDS HOLDING IN. WILL STAY NEAR
FWC MOS FOR MINS. UPPER TROF LOOKS LIKE IT WILL PASS OVER THE AREA ON
FRIDAY. WILL KEEP SOME CLOUDS IN THROUGH FRIDAY...BUT LOOKS LIKE MOISTURE
WILL BE TOO SCARCE FOR A MENTION OF PRECIPITATION. LOWER MOS MAXES
FOR FRIDAY IN THE MID 40S TO LOWER 50S LOOK REASONABLE. DRY AND MILD
WEATHER SHOULD MOVE IN AFTER THAT INTO MONDAY. WILL INCREASE CLOUDS
SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AND PUT IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN FOR MONDAY
NIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY AS ANOTHER SHORT WAVE MOVES ACROSS. ARCTIC FRONT
REACHES THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND WILL PUT IN A CHANCE OF RAIN FOR
THAT. LOOKS LIKE IMPACT OF ARCTIC AIR WILL REACH AREA AFTER NEXT
WEDNESDAY.

.LZK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT PARTS OF NORTHEAST
          ZONES 16-23>25-33-34

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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.