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Tornado Warning 85, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 31, 2010Cleburne County, Faulkner County, White County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Dec 31, 2010, 4:43 AM CST for Cleburne County, Faulkner County, White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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 31, 2010, 4:43 AM CST (10:43 UTC)
Expired: Dec 31, 2010, 5:15 AM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cleburne County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, White County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:44 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Dec 31, 3:19 AM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 3:19 AM CST, 1 hour 24 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
Dec 31, 3:40 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Marion and 2 more	14 hr
Dec 31, 8:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	46 min
Dec 31, 9:18 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Scott, Yell	47 min
Dec 31, 9:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton	52 min
Dec 31, 9:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	49 min
Dec 31, 9:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	45 min
Dec 31, 10:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy	42 min
Dec 31, 10:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Marion, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren	45 min
Dec 31, 10:52 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Searcy, Stone	11 min
Dec 31, 11:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Stone	49 min
Dec 31, 11:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Sharp	47 min
Dec 31, 12:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Sharp, White	58 min
Dec 31, 1:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Saline	27 min
Dec 31, 2:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Woodruff	43 min
Dec 31, 3:02 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	43 min
Dec 31, 3:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway	43 min
Dec 31, 3:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke	43 min
Dec 31, 4:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley, Drew	46 min
Dec 31, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland, Drew	44 min
Dec 31, 4:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	17 min
Dec 31, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln	38 min
Dec 31, 5:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe, Prairie	39 min
Dec 31, 5:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	24 min
Dec 31, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha	43 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.