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Tornado Warning 84, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 24, 2010Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2010, 4:59 PM CDT for Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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: Oct 24, 2010, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2010, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 24, 1:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 1476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 11.1

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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 Oct 24, 3:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 3:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 24, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 24, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 24, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 24, 3:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 24, 4:06 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 24, 4:24 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 24, 4:39 PM CDT, 20 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
Oct 24, 2:29 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more	17 hr
Oct 24, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike, Polk	37 min
Oct 24, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery	38 min
Oct 24, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	48 min
Oct 24, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	29 min
Oct 24, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley	32 min
Oct 24, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln	34 min
Oct 24, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	31 min
Oct 24, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	48 min
Oct 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	29 min
Oct 24, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	27 min
Oct 24, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Clark, Ouachita	24 min
Oct 24, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Pulaski, Saline	49 min
Oct 24, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	33 min
Oct 24, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	28 min
Oct 24, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita	42 min
Oct 24, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	51 min
Oct 24, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie	45 min
Oct 24, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie	46 min
Oct 24, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	43 min
Oct 24, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski	47 min
Oct 24, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Jefferson and 1 more	31 min
Oct 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Clark, Dallas, Ouachita	36 min
Oct 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln	31 min
Oct 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie	45 min
Oct 24, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	42 min
Oct 24, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Lincoln	34 min
Oct 24, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke	47 min
Oct 24, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Lincoln	40 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.