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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 2, 2009Desha County, Drew County, Lincoln County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2009, 3:51 PM CDT for Desha County, Drew County, Lincoln County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 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: May 2, 2009, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2009, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Lincoln County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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
May 2, 12:17 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 442 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 May 2, 12:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 12:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 10:21 AM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1021 AM CDT SAT MAY 02 2009

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

1021 AM     FLASH FLOOD      NORTH LITTLE ROCK       34.79N 92.26W
05/02/2009                   PULASKI            AR   NWS EMPLOYEE

            MINOR STREET FLOODING ON CAMP ROBINSON.

&&

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Special weather statement, May 2, 11:07 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1107 AM CDT SAT MAY 2 2009

ARZ037-040-021705-
POLK-SCOTT-
1107 AM CDT SAT MAY 2 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR POLK AND SCOTT COUNTIES UNTIL 1205
PM CDT...

AT 1106 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES WEST OF
LAKE WILHELMINA TO 10 MILES WEST OF HATFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS AS THEY TRACK INTO NORTHERN POLK AND SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTIES.

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Local storm report, May 2, 2:51 PM CDT, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, May 2, 3:17 PM CDT, 34 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
May 1, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton	50 min
May 1, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope	41 min
May 1, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	44 min
May 1, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope	47 min
May 1, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy	31 min
May 1, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	49 min
May 1, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Pope	41 min
May 1, 9:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren and 1 more	2 hr
May 1, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Newton, Perry, Pope, Van Buren and 1 more	55 min
May 1, 9:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Conway, Pope, Van Buren	51 min
May 1, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren	58 min
May 1, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Pope	42 min
May 1, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Yell	39 min
May 1, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren, White	45 min
May 1, 11:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope and 3 more	6 hr
May 2, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski	42 min
May 2, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren, White	48 min
May 2, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White	52 min
May 2, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White	33 min
May 2, 2:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Stone, Van Buren and 2 more	4 hr
May 2, 3:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	32 min
May 2, 6:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Van Buren, Yell	4 hr
May 2, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Yell	41 min
May 2, 8:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Pulaski, White and 1 more	3 hr
May 2, 8:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Scott, Yell	3 hr
May 2, 10:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope, Scott, Yell	3 hr
May 2, 11:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Monroe, Perry and 8 more	6 hr
May 2, 11:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	6 hr
May 2, 11:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	48 min
May 2, 12:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	23 hr
May 2, 12:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Prairie	18 days
May 2, 12:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	18 days
May 2, 12:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	White	32 hr
May 2, 12:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Montgomery, Pike	41 min
May 2, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	43 min
May 2, 2:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln	52 min
May 2, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln	49 min
May 2, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln	45 min
May 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry and 4 more	6 hr
May 2, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	60 min
May 2, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	39 min
May 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita	6 hr

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.