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Tornado Warning 81, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2010, 6:25 PM CDT for Clark County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Sep 8, 2010, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2010, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Clark County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 678 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 8:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Ouachita | 59 min |
| Sep 8, 3:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 27 hr |
| Sep 8, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Clark | 58 min |
| Sep 8, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark | 29 min |
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.