Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2004, 9:57 AM CDT for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 18 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
- Oct 18, 2004, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2004, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pulaski County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 9:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1504 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 16.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLZK 181457 TORLIT ARC119-181515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 957 AM CDT MON OCT 18 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1015 AM CDT * AT 957 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WRIGHTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN LITTLE ROCK...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. 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 9228 3446 9219 3455 9204 3485 9219 $$ 29
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 5:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 32 min |
| Oct 18, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 34 min |
| Oct 18, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, White | 39 min |
| Oct 18, 7:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 26 min |
| Oct 18, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 49 min |
| Oct 18, 7:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White, Woodruff | 52 min |
| Oct 18, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Oct 18, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Woodruff | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 9:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 43 min |
| Oct 18, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 39 min |
| Oct 18, 10:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 64 min |
| Oct 18, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 2 hr |
| Oct 18, 11:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Prairie | 2 hr |
| Oct 18, 11:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe | 56 min |
| Oct 18, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Lonoke, Prairie | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 40 min |
| Oct 18, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 63 min |
| Oct 18, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 31 min |
| Oct 18, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 34 min |
| Oct 18, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 40 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.