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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 9, 2006Montgomery County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 2006, 8:25 AM CST for Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 20 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: Mar 9, 2006, 8:25 AM CST (14:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2006, 8:45 AM CST
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:29 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 9, 6:52 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 793 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 301 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 418 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 7.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLZK 091425
TORLZK
ARC097-091445-
/O.NEW.KLZK.TO.W.0007.060309T1425Z-060309T1445Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
825 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 845 AM CST

* AT 824 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF
  WELSH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WELSH...MAZARN AROUND 830 AM CST...

&&

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR ARKANSAS.

LAT...LON 3436 9365 3439 9365 3440 9367 3441 9367
      3451 9341 3451 9341 3435 9341 3435 9364

$$

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Mar 9, 4:10 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 4:10 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
410 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006

.SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT
CURRENT BOUT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE PUSHING EAST FAST AS
UPPER LOW MOVES NORTHEAST. SOME OF THE STRONG WINDS WILL MIX DOWN
TO THE SURFACE...SO WILL CONTINUE THE LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6
PM TONIGHT. UPPER LOW WILL BE EAST OF THE STATE THURSDAY NIGHT...
SO PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE ENDING OVERNIGHT THURSDAY. DRY WEATHER
FOR FRIDAY. MOISTURE WILL RETURN QUICKLY FROM THE SOUTH FOR THE
WEEK END.
&&

.LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
LAST IN THE SERIES OF UPPER SYSTEMS WL BE WORKING ACRS THE FA ON
MON. HAVE CONTD WITH SCTD POPS ALONG AND AHEAD OF ASSOCD CDFNT ATTM
AS TIMING ISSUES STILL A CONCERN. HIGH PRES AND DRIER AIR WL BLD
INTO AR FOR TUE AND WED. THE HIGH WL SHIFT E OF THE AREA BY LATE WED
AND WED NGT. ANOTHER LOW PRES SYS IS PROGGED TO DVLP OVR THE PLAINS
STATES...ALLOWING SLY FLOW TO RETURN TO THE REGION. ONLY SOME MINOR
ADJUSTMENTS MADE TO GOING TEMP FCST THRU THE PD.
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
LITTLE ROCK   AR  70  44  70  57 /  90  10  10  20
HARRISON AR       58  39  66  54 /  90  20  10  20
HOT SPRINGS AR    69  44  72  58 /  90  10  10  20
PINE BLUFF AR     71  47  72  59 /  90  10  10  20
MOUNTAIN HOME AR  59  39  66  54 /  90  20  10  20
MONTICELLO AR     73  48  72  59 /  90  10  10  20
SEARCY AR         69  43  68  56 /  90  10  10  20
MOUNT IDA AR      68  44  72  57 /  90  10  10  20
RUSSELLVILLE AR   67  42  68  55 /  90  20  10  20
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM THURSDAY FOR ARZ003-ARZ004-ARZ005-
ARZ006-ARZ007-ARZ012-ARZ013-ARZ014-ARZ015-ARZ016-ARZ021-ARZ022-
ARZ023-ARZ024-ARZ025-ARZ030-ARZ031-ARZ032-ARZ033-ARZ034-ARZ037-
ARZ038-ARZ039-ARZ040-ARZ041-ARZ042-ARZ043-ARZ044-ARZ045-ARZ046-
ARZ047-ARZ052-ARZ053-ARZ054-ARZ055-ARZ056-ARZ057-ARZ062-ARZ063-
ARZ064-ARZ065-ARZ066-ARZ067-ARZ068-ARZ069.

&&

SHORT TERM...32 / LONG TERM...44

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 5:00 AM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-101100-
ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-
CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-
INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE-
MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-
PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-
WOODRUFF-YELL-
500 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

TODAY...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
PORTIONS OF EASTERN ARKANSAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REST OF THE STATE.

A STRONG STORM SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM
THE PLAINS STATES THIS MORNING. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SEVERAL LINES
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS RAPIDLY
EASTWARD THROUGH ARKANSAS. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY
WITH THESE LINES OF STORMS.

THE LINES OF STORMS MAY BULGE FORWARD IN PLACES...WITH SEVERAL
BOWING SEGMENTS LIKELY. WINDS TEND TO POOL AND ROTATE ON THE ENDS OF
EACH SEGMENT...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES OFTEN SPAWNED. ALSO...SHOULD
THERE BE ANY STORMS AHEAD OF THE LINE...THEY HAVE A TENDENCY TO
ROTATE AND COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES.

BY THIS AFTERNOON...THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL EXIT
THE STATE TO THE EAST WITH THE FRONT SOON TO FOLLOW. THE MAIN STORM
SYSTEM WILL BE IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI...AND WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH
COLD AIR ALOFT. THIS WILL MOVE OVER WARMER CONDITIONS NEAR THE
GROUND...WITH A FEW MORE STORMS POPPING UP. THESE STORMS COULD
AFFECT NORTHERN ARKANSAS WITH LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

A SERIES OF STORM SYSTEMS AND COLD FRONTS WILL MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS
SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
ACCOMPANY EACH SYSTEM. TIMING OF EACH SYSTEM IS DIFFICULT AT THIS
TIME...BUT THERE COULD BE SOME CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH ANY OF
THESE SYSTEMS.

HIGH PRESSURE AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE NATURAL STATE FOR
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON OVER MOST OF THE AREA. AFTER TODAY...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS
NOT ANTICIPATED.

&&

PEOPLE IN ARKANSAS ARE URGED TO REVIEW THEIR SEVERE WEATHER RULES
AND MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BULLETINS FOR ADDITIONAL WATCHES AND
WARNINGS. USE OF NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TELEVISIONS WITH ALERT
FEATURES FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL COME IN HANDY TODAY.

FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE
VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 9, 5:03 AM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
503 AM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0310 AM     TSTM WND DMG     COAL HILL               35.44N 93.67W
03/09/2006                   JOHNSON            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ROAD SIGNS DOWN

0455 AM     TSTM WND DMG     CABOT                   34.97N 92.02W
03/09/2006                   LONOKE             AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            REPORT OF DAMAGE TO RESIDENCE NEAR HWY 167 AND HWY 5

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 6:28 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
628 AM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 AM     TSTM WND DMG     TOLTEC                  34.65N 92.05W
03/09/2006                   LONOKE             AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POSSIBLE TORNADO WITH DAMAGE REPORTED AS FENCES DOWN AND
            SINGLES OFF OF ROOFS.

0535 AM     TSTM WND DMG     1 W CURTIS              34.00N 93.12W
03/09/2006                   CLARK              AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES DOWN.

0540 AM     TSTM WND DMG     ARKADELPHIA             34.12N 93.07W
03/09/2006                   CLARK              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN CITY OF ARKADELPHIA.

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 7:16 AM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
716 AM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0445 AM     TSTM WND DMG     MALVERN                 34.37N 92.82W
03/09/2006                   HOT SPRING         AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN JUST OUTSIDE OF TOWN.

0540 AM     TSTM WND DMG     MORTON                  35.25N 91.10W
03/09/2006                   WOODRUFF           AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POSSIBLE TORNADO AT MORTON. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
            ACROSS HWY 64 AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO BUILDING.

0540 AM     TSTM WND DMG     ARKADELPHIA             34.12N 93.07W
03/09/2006                   CLARK              AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            OUACHTIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY SCOREBOARD DAMAGED.

0545 AM     TSTM WND DMG     AMAGON                  35.56N 91.11W
03/09/2006                   JACKSON            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POWER LINES...POWER POLES AND TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 14 AND
            HWY 37 NEAR AMAGON. ALSO...STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO A SHED.

&&

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 7:20 AM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
720 AM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0655 AM     TSTM WND DMG     MORTON                  35.25N 91.10W
03/09/2006                   WOODRUFF           AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POSSIBLE TORNADO AT MORTON. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
            ACROSS HWY 64 AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO BUILDING.

&&
CORRECTED TIME FOR MORTON REPORT TO 655 AM.

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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
Mar 8, 9:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Scott, Yell	57 min
Mar 8, 11:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	32 min
Mar 9, 2:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan	43 min
Mar 9, 4:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, White	38 min
Mar 9, 4:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring	51 min
Mar 9, 5:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	30 min
Mar 9, 5:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, White, Woodruff	43 min
Mar 9, 5:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	28 min
Mar 9, 5:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	46 min
Mar 9, 5:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	25 min
Mar 9, 5:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke	35 min
Mar 9, 5:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	27 min
Mar 9, 6:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	51 min
Mar 9, 6:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	57 min
Mar 9, 6:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Woodruff	27 min
Mar 9, 7:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	13 min
Mar 9, 7:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	50 min
Mar 9, 7:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott	23 min
Mar 9, 7:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pike	48 min
Mar 9, 8:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	50 min
Mar 9, 8:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	21 min
Mar 9, 8:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	34 min
Mar 9, 8:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	44 min
Mar 9, 8:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	36 min
Mar 9, 9:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Stone, Van Buren	40 min
Mar 9, 9:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring, Saline	51 min
Mar 9, 9:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	15 min
Mar 9, 9:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski	54 min
Mar 9, 9:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	37 min
Mar 9, 10:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, White	43 min
Mar 9, 10:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	32 min
Mar 9, 10:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	52 min
Mar 9, 10:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	30 min
Mar 9, 11:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie	44 min
Mar 9, 11:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	30 min
Mar 9, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	35 min
Mar 9, 3:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	39 min
Mar 9, 3:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	39 min
Mar 9, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard	49 min
Mar 9, 4:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Stone, Van Buren	56 min
Mar 9, 4:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	43 min
Mar 9, 4:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	59 min
Mar 9, 5:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	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.