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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 23, 2002Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jan 23, 2002, 6:41 PM CST for Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 2002, 6:41 PM CST (00:41 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 2002, 7:20 PM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marion County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 23, 6:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Pyatt, AR	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and damaged the roofs of several homes near Pyatt.
Jan 23, 6:50 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Flippin, AR
Jan 23, 6:55 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Flippin, AR	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and caused roof damage to several homes. A couple of barns were also blown down.
Jan 23, 7:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Cotter, AR	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree at Cotter.

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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 23, 4:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLZK 240041
TORLIT
ARC089-240120-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 720 PM CST

* AT 636 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER PYATT...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF YELLVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  YELLVILLE AROUND 650 PM CST
  FLIPPIN AROUND 655 PM CST
  BULL SHOALS AROUND 700 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 3638 9257 3632 9257 3626 9251 3615 9287
          3633 9287

$$

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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
Jan 23, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter	40 min
Jan 23, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	42 min
Jan 23, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	35 min
Jan 23, 7:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	25 min
Jan 23, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	44 min
Jan 23, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy, Van Buren	35 min
Jan 23, 8:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Stone, Van Buren	41 min
Jan 23, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	40 min
Jan 23, 9:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Van Buren	44 min
Jan 23, 9:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	36 min
Jan 23, 11:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	43 min
Jan 23, 11:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	28 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.