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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 12, 20094 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2009, 3:37 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2009, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2009, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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
Jun 12, 11:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 2087 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 8.3

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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 Jun 12, 3:23 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:23 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 11:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...RESENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1115 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-131000-
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-
1115 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. THESE WILL BE MOST
CONCENTRATED ALONG AND TO THE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WIDESPREAD...DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS.

VERY LARGE HAIL...GOLF BALL SIZE AND LARGER...WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH
THE STRONGEST STORMS.

A COMPLEX OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WILL
MOVE INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF ARKANSAS DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON
HOURS.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED NUMEROUS DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA.  ATMOSPHERIC
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THIS THIS COMPLEX TO MOVE ACROSS
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS DURING...BETWEEN NOON AND 4 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH
EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MEANDERS NORTH AND SOUTH
OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS. SOME STORMS WILL
HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WITH THE HIGH LEVELS OF
INSTABILITY EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION. THREAT FOR LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING WILL ALSO CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH PLENTY OF
MOISTURE IN PLACE...AND WITH MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED.

STEADILY INCREASING SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL ALSO BECOME A THREAT
BEGINNING LATE WEEKEND INTO LATE NEXT WEEK AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
BUILDS INTO THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL
WARM WELL INTO THE 90S BY NEXT WEEK...AND FORECAST HEAT INDEX
VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 100 BY LATE THIS WEEKEND...AND
NEAR 105 BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND
CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

55/57/61

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 3:17 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 3:18 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 3:22 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 3:25 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 3:26 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 3:30 PM CDT, 7 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
Jun 12, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski	20 min
Jun 12, 12:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	49 min
Jun 12, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Johnson, Logan, Newton	56 min
Jun 12, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope, Scott, Yell	66 min
Jun 12, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Perry and 4 more	47 min
Jun 12, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Conway, Johnson, Logan, Marion, Newton and 3 more	66 min
Jun 12, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Polk and 5 more	56 min
Jun 12, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 6 more	45 min
Jun 12, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline and 1 more	64 min
Jun 12, 2:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White	27 min
Jun 12, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Independence and 7 more	57 min
Jun 12, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Pulaski, White, Woodruff	62 min
Jun 12, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson	55 min
Jun 12, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff	37 min
Jun 12, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	47 min
Jun 12, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe and 1 more	58 min
Jun 12, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	44 min
Jun 12, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln	47 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2009 Every tornado warning in 2009 Tornadoes in 2009

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.