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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2004, 4:02 PM CDT for Lonoke County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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, 2004, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lonoke County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
390
WFUS54 KLZK 242102
TORLIT
ARC085-242130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
402 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LONOKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
* AT 359 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO NEAR ENGLAND...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF LONOKE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BLAKEMORE AROUND 410 PM CDT
CULLER AROUND 415 PM CDT
CARLISLE AROUND 430 PM CDT
&&
A DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TORNADO MEANS THERE IS 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 3462 9202 3479 9182 3489 9169 3465 9170
3455 9176 3448 9202
$$
46The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 9:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 12:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 4:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Newton | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion, Searcy | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Newton | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 9:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pope | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion, Searcy | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 10:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Newton | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 12:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 31 min |
| Apr 24, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, White | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 4:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Izard | 118 min |
| Apr 24, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 42 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.