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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 18, 2002Lincoln County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Dec 18, 2002, 9:47 PM CST for Lincoln County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 18, 2002, 9:47 PM CST (03:47 UTC)
Expired: Dec 18, 2002, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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
Dec 18, 8:55 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 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.

896 
WFUS54 KLZK 190347
TORLIT
ARC079-190430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
947 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 943 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STAR CITY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF RISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  STAR CITY AROUND 1005 PM CST
  GRADY AROUND 1020 PM CST
  GOULD AROUND 1025 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 IN LITTLE ROCK.

LAT...LON 3397 9196 3380 9194 3400 9151 3411 9169

$$

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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
Dec 18, 6:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	29 min
Dec 18, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	46 min
Dec 18, 6:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Ouachita	43 min
Dec 18, 6:17 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Pulaski	118 min
Dec 18, 6:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	37 min
Dec 18, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie, White	30 min
Dec 18, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun	29 min
Dec 18, 6:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun	31 min
Dec 18, 7:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson	43 min
Dec 18, 7:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	43 min
Dec 18, 7:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	44 min
Dec 18, 7:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Lincoln	46 min
Dec 18, 7:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Ouachita	41 min
Dec 18, 8:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jefferson	40 min
Dec 18, 8:18 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Prairie	117 min
Dec 18, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	32 min
Dec 18, 8:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	41 min
Dec 18, 8:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun	30 min
Dec 18, 8:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Monroe	3 hr
Dec 18, 9:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe	42 min
Dec 18, 9:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita	3 hr
Dec 18, 9:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland	41 min
Dec 18, 9:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun	33 min
Dec 18, 9:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland	43 min
Dec 18, 9:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	43 min
Dec 18, 10:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Lincoln	3 hr
Dec 18, 10:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lincoln	41 min
Dec 18, 10:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha, Lincoln	43 min
Dec 18, 10:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	32 min
Dec 18, 11:01 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Bradley	2 hr
Dec 18, 11:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	29 min
Dec 18, 11:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 5 more	4 hr
Dec 18, 11:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 5 more	4 hr
Dec 19, 2:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	29 min
Dec 19, 3:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Desha, Drew	4 hr
Dec 19, 4:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	41 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.