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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 24, 2003Izard County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 7:40 PM CDT for Izard County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2003, 8:10 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Izard County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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
Apr 24, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 24, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

178 
WFUS54 KLZK 250040
TORLIT
ARC065-250110-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 810 PM CDT

* AT 735 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR OXFORD...MOVING EAST   
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FRANKLIN AROUND 750 PM CDT
  HORSESHOE BEND AROUND 755 PM CDT
&&

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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 3624 9193 3613 9193 3614 9168 3625 9168

$$

55/22

The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	42 min
Apr 24, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	42 min
Apr 24, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson	37 min
Apr 24, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun	38 min
Apr 24, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	42 min
Apr 24, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	40 min
Apr 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard	46 min
Apr 24, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas	49 min
Apr 24, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	35 min
Apr 24, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Bradley	40 min
Apr 24, 8:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	39 min
Apr 24, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	43 min
Apr 24, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun	39 min
Apr 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard	3 hr
Apr 24, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	19 min
Apr 24, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson	39 min
Apr 24, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	12 min
Apr 24, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	29 min
Apr 24, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie	39 min
Apr 24, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	42 min
Apr 24, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	49 min
Apr 24, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	44 min
Apr 24, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jackson	39 min
Apr 24, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	3 hr

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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.