Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2008, 8:07 PM CST for Jefferson County, Lincoln County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Feb 5, 2008, 8:07 PM CST (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:08 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 12.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KLZK 060207
TORLZK
ARC069-079-060245-
/O.NEW.KLZK.TO.W.0021.080206T0207Z-080206T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
807 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
* UNTIL 845 PM CST
* AT 805 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CANE CREEK
LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
VARNER AROUND 815 PM CST...
&&
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR ARKANSAS.
LAT...LON 3394 9189 3421 9152 3416 9151 3413 9144
3408 9145 3401 9141 3396 9150 3397 9154
3393 9154 3380 9175
TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 231DEG 49KT 3394 9172
$$
46The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard | 52 min |
| Feb 5, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Pulaski | 46 min |
| Feb 5, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Pulaski, Saline | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Ouachita | 38 min |
| Feb 5, 6:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Newton | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 6:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 47 min |
| Feb 5, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas, Grant | 56 min |
| Feb 5, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 52 min |
| Feb 5, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 33 min |
| Feb 5, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Van Buren | 33 min |
| Feb 5, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Independence, Jefferson, Lonoke, Sharp and 1 more | 55 min |
| Feb 5, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 38 min |
| Feb 5, 7:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 27 min |
| Feb 5, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 47 min |
| Feb 5, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe | 27 min |
| Feb 5, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 63 min |
| Feb 5, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha, Drew | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 46 min |
| Feb 5, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 29 min |
| Feb 5, 8:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe | 19 min |
| Feb 5, 8:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 22 min |
| Feb 5, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 28 min |
| Feb 6, 11:40 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, Woodruff | 25 days |
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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.