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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 22, 20124 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 2012, 6:58 PM CST for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 22, 2012, 6:58 PM CST (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 2012, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Grant County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 22, 7:05 PM CST	FUNNEL CLOUD	6 Sw England, AR
Jan 22, 7:15 PM CST	HAIL 1.25	2 W Clear Lake, AR	HAIL CRACKED THE WINDSHIELD OF THE AMATUER RADIO OPERATOR.
Jan 22, 7:26 PM CST	FUNNEL CLOUD	4 S England, AR
Jan 22, 7:28 PM CST	TORNADO 1	2 Sw Coy, AR	THIS TORNADO STARTED 2.5 MILES SW OF COY AND ENDED 1.7 MILES SW OF COY FOR A TOTAL PATH LENGTH OF THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE AND WAS RATED AN EF1. DAMAGE FOUND INCLUDED AN IRRIGATION PIVOT THAT WAS FLIPPED OVER AND LANDED IN A NEARBY DITCH. A NUMBER OF TREE LIMB
Jan 22, 7:30 PM CST	HAIL 1.25	4 S England, AR	AMATEUER OPERATOR REPORTING SOME HAIL STONES THE SIZE OF SAOFTBALLS.
Jan 22, 7:30 PM CST	HAIL 1.5	England, AR
Jan 22, 7:40 PM CST	TORNADO	5 W Coy, AR	AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWWN 5 MILES WEST OF COY

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 22, 5:16 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 475 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 474 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

056 
WFUS54 KLZK 230058
TORLZK
ARC053-069-085-119-230130-
/O.NEW.KLZK.TO.W.0003.120123T0058Z-120123T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
658 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS...
  SOUTH CENTRAL LONOKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS...

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 655 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS SEVERE
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHERIDAN. DOPPLER RADAR     
  SHOWED THIS SEVERE STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. ANOTHER       
  POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF SHERIDAN...ALSO MOVING  
  NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADOES...THESE STORMS   
  ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE...
  SHERIDAN...           REDFIELD...           PINE BLUFF ARSENAL...
  ORION...              KEO...                HENSLEY ISLAND...
  ENGLAND...            CANE CREEK...         WRIGHT...
  TUCKER...             TOMBERLIN...          SHERRILL...
  SEATON...             SAMPLES...            PRAGUE...
  PETTUS...             PASTORIA...           JEFFERSON...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 530 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 15 AND 30.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3442 9170 3420 9245 3437 9251 3450 9227
      3449 9225 3451 9225 3471 9186
TIME...MOT...LOC 0057Z 239DEG 46KT 3437 9230

$$

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1 follow-up statement

857 
WWUS54 KLZK 230116
SVSLZK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
716 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012

ARC053-069-085-119-230130-
/O.CON.KLZK.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120123T0130Z/
GRANT AR-JEFFERSON AR-LONOKE AR-PULASKI AR-
716 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI...
SOUTH CENTRAL LONOKE...NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON AND NORTHEASTERN GRANT
COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CST...

AT 713 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. 
THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ENGLAND...OR
18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DWNTWN LITTLE ROCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55
MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO INCLUDE...
  REDFIELD...           KEO...                HENSLEY ISLAND...
  ENGLAND...            WRIGHT...             TUCKER...
  TOMBERLIN...          SHERRILL...           SEATON...
  PETTUS...             JEFFERSON...          HENSLEY...
  GETHSEMANE...         COY...                BLAKEMORE...
  ALLPORT...            WHITE BLUFF...        WAMPOO...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 530 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 16 AND 26.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3433 9222 3449 9225 3471 9186 3443 9170
      3442 9171
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 237DEG 47KT 3453 9202

$$

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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
Jan 22, 6:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White	27 min
Jan 22, 6:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, White	25 min
Jan 22, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Saline	49 min
Jan 22, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Saline	32 min
Jan 22, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita	28 min
Jan 22, 6:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita	40 min
Jan 22, 6:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson	24 min
Jan 22, 6:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	32 min
Jan 22, 6:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland	29 min
Jan 22, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Sharp	41 min
Jan 22, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	47 min
Jan 22, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White	47 min
Jan 22, 7:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita	29 min
Jan 22, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	51 min
Jan 22, 7:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita	35 min
Jan 22, 7:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning Emergency	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Jefferson, Lincoln	50 min
Jan 22, 7:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie	31 min
Jan 22, 7:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff	43 min
Jan 22, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Pulaski, Saline	26 min
Jan 22, 7:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, White, Woodruff	52 min
Jan 22, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Jefferson, Lincoln	46 min
Jan 22, 7:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski	27 min
Jan 22, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	35 min
Jan 22, 8:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln	28 min
Jan 22, 8:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ouachita	43 min
Jan 22, 8:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	52 min
Jan 22, 8:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie	33 min
Jan 22, 8:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln	47 min
Jan 22, 8:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln	33 min
Jan 22, 8:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Monroe	48 min
Jan 22, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie	19 min
Jan 22, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland	19 min
Jan 22, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	16 min
Jan 22, 9:07 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence	13 hr
Jan 22, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	30 min
Jan 22, 9:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	28 min
Jan 22, 9:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew	35 min
Jan 22, 9:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	24 min
Jan 23, 9:50 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	33 days

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.