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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 5, 2008Monroe County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2008, 8:56 PM CST for Monroe County, Arkansas. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 5, 2008, 8:56 PM CST (02:56 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2008, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Monroe County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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 PDS	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 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

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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 Feb 5, 8:37 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 8:37 PM CST, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 5, 8:35 PM CST, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 5, 6:06 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
606 PM CST TUE FEB 05 2008

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

0515 PM     TORNADO          GASSVILLE               36.28N 92.49W
02/05/2008                   BAXTER             AR   BROADCAST MEDIA

            MOBILE HOME PARK DAMAGED. POWER POLES BLOCKING ROAD
            THROUGH TOWN.

0510 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CARDEN BOTTOMS          35.15N 93.01W
02/05/2008                   YELL               AR   AMATEUR RADIO

            TREES DOWN IN CARDEN BOTTOMS. DAMAGE TO TWO STRUCTURES.

0500 PM     TORNADO          N OLA                   35.03N 93.22W
02/05/2008                   YELL               AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TORNADO ON THE NORTH SIDE OF OLA. TREE LIMBS DOWN AND A
            BARN DAMAGED.

0516 PM     TORNADO          CLEVELAND               35.42N 92.71W
02/05/2008                   CONWAY             AR   AMATEUR RADIO

            DEBRIS IN AIR

&&

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Local storm report, Feb 5, 6:57 PM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
657 PM CST TUE FEB 05 2008

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

0655 PM     TORNADO          E ASH FLAT              36.23N 91.61W
02/05/2008                   SHARP              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TORNADO ON HWY 354 EAST OF ASH FLAT. HOMES DAMAGED.

&&

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Local storm report, Feb 5, 7:18 PM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
718 PM CST TUE FEB 05 2008

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

0700 PM     TORNADO          S ASH FLAT              36.23N 91.61W
02/05/2008                   SHARP              AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            167 S OF ASH FLAT CLOSED. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
            ACROSS THE COUNTY.

0625 PM     HAIL             5 NE SHERIDAN           34.36N 92.34W
02/05/2008  E1.75 INCH       GRANT              AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            GOLF BALL HAIL BETWEEN SHERIDAN AND REDFIELD.

0713 PM     TSTM WND GST     LITTLE ROCK NATIONAL AI 34.73N 92.22W
02/05/2008  M67 MPH          PULASKI            AR   ASOS

&&

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Local storm report, Feb 5, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
725 PM CST TUE FEB 05 2008

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

0717 PM     TSTM WND GST     LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE B 34.92N 92.15W
02/05/2008  M59.00 MPH       PULASKI            AR   OFFICIAL NWS OBS

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Local storm report, Feb 5, 7:59 PM CST, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
759 PM CST TUE FEB 05 2008

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

0700 PM     TORNADO          HIGHLAND                36.26N 91.52W
02/05/2008                   SHARP              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            HIGHLAND FIRE DEPT. DESTROYED

0720 PM     TSTM WND DMG     FLORAL                  35.59N 91.76W
02/05/2008                   INDEPENDENCE       AR   PUBLIC

            CHICKEN HOUSE DESTROYED.

0730 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CABOT                   34.97N 92.02W
02/05/2008                   LONOKE             AR   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            TREES DOWN AND POWER OUT IN CABOT.

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Local storm report, Feb 5, 8:30 PM CST, 26 minutes before

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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
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, 8:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jefferson, Lincoln	38 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, 8:59 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.