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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 24, 2003White County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 4:56 PM CDT for White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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: Apr 24, 2003, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2003, 5:25 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County White County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 24, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 24, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -291 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

772 
WFUS54 KLZK 242156
TORLIT
ARC145-242225-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
455 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WHITE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 525 PM CDT

* AT 452 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF SEARCY NEAR CENTER HILL...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ALBION AROUND 500 PM CDT
  PROVIDENCE AROUND 510 PM CDT

&&

FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SIGHTED. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A CONFIRMED
TORNADO YET...BUT THERE MAY BE BEFORE LONG. 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 3525 9200 3513 9185 3537 9151 3553 9170

$$

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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
Apr 24, 10:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	36 min
Apr 24, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	28 min
Apr 24, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	46 min
Apr 24, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	40 min
Apr 24, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	42 min
Apr 24, 4:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	36 min
Apr 24, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	31 min
Apr 24, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy, Stone	45 min
Apr 24, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	41 min
Apr 24, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	43 min
Apr 24, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	62 min
Apr 24, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Stone	23 min
Apr 24, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	33 min
Apr 24, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	36 min
Apr 24, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard, Stone	46 min
Apr 24, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	35 min
Apr 24, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	32 min
Apr 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Marion	40 min
Apr 24, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter	62 min
Apr 24, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard	42 min
Apr 24, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	34 min
Apr 24, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	40 min
Apr 24, 6:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	119 min
Apr 24, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	52 min
Apr 24, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton	61 min

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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.