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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2009, 8:38 AM CST for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 37 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
- Dec 24, 2009, 8:38 AM CST (14:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2009, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bradley County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Drew County, AR, Lincoln County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 7:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Garland, Pulaski, Saline | 4 hr |
| Dec 23, 9:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring, Pike | 5 hr |
| Dec 23, 10:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita | 59 min |
| Dec 23, 11:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Garland, Pulaski, Saline | 4 hr |
| Dec 23, 11:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 12 hr |
| Dec 24, 12:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, Monroe and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:34 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita, Pike | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 3:22 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Pulaski, Saline and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 3:59 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, Prairie and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 4:01 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | LZK | Baxter, Conway, Garland, Marion, Perry, Pike | 8 hr |
| Dec 24, 4:49 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Lawrence, Randolph | 38 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:34 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Grant and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 7:45 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Perry | 4 days |
| Dec 24, 7:50 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 72 hr |
| Dec 24, 8:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln | 47 min |
| Dec 24, 9:10 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Ashley, Bradley, Cleveland, Drew | 11 days |
| Dec 24, 9:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 23 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:22 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Randolph | 23 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:43 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 10:13 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 10:45 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Grant and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 12:09 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 3 days |
| Dec 24, 12:22 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | LZK | Marion | 16 hr |
| Dec 24, 12:22 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Fulton, Independence, Izard and 4 more | 18 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:05 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas and 22 more | 4 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.