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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 29, 2013Bradley County, Drew County, Lincoln County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jan 29, 2013, 8:37 PM CST for Bradley County, Drew County, Lincoln County, Arkansas. It was in force for 23 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 29, 2013, 8:37 PM CST (02:37 UTC)
Expired: Jan 29, 2013, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bradley County, AR, Drew County, AR, Lincoln County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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 29, 8:45 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Monticello, AR	A LARGE METAL BARN WAS DESTROYED ON THE CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTICELLO. THE EVENT TIME IS BASED ON RADAR DATA.
Jan 29, 8:46 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Monticello, AR	TREES ARE DOWN IN SEVERAL AREAS OF MONTICELLO.
Jan 29, 8:50 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	1 Se Monticello, AR	A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON OLD TROY ROAD. TWO VEHICLES THEN RAN INTO THE TREE. THERE WERE NO INJURIES. THE EVENT TIME IS BASED ON RADAR DATA.
Jan 29, 8:51 PM CST	TORNADO 0	3 Ene Monticello, AR	A FEW TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN. ONE TREE KNOCKED DOWN POWER LINES AND BROKE A UTILITY POLE. SEVERAL HOUSES HAD SHINGLE DAMAGE. PART OF THE ROOF OF A MOBILE HOME WAS BLOWN OFF. ONE CARPORT WAS BLOWN DOWN...AND ANOTHER ONE WAS BLOWN INTO A TREE LINE. SEVERAL OUTBUI
Jan 29, 8:52 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 60	Monticello, AR
Jan 29, 8:53 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	3 Ene Monticello, AR	TREE DEBRIS IN THE ALONG HIGHWAY 138.
Jan 29, 8:55 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	6 Ene Monticello, AR	TREE AND POWER LINE DOWN BLOCKING HIGHWAY 138.

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 29, 5:37 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 784 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 508 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 586 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.0
Supercell composite: 11.5

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The text

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

490 
WFUS54 KLZK 300237
TORLZK
ARC011-043-079-300300-
/O.NEW.KLZK.TO.W.0013.130130T0237Z-130130T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
837 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...
  DREW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...
  EXTREME EAST CENTRAL BRADLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 832 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS SEVERE
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF LONGVIEW...OR 12 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF WARREN. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS SEVERE STORM MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE...
  MONTICELLO...         WILMAR...             WARRENTON...
  LAKE MONTICELLO...    LADELLE...            GREEN HILL...
  VALLEY...             TYRO...               SELMA...
  ROSE HILL...          MONTONGO...           LACEY...
  FLORENCE...           ENON...               COLEMAN...
  WELLS LAKE...         TROTTERS BRAKE...     TENNESSEE...

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 3350 9205 3390 9170 3380 9156 3378 9156
      3378 9154 3373 9147 3339 9188
TIME...MOT...LOC 0237Z 220DEG 53KT 3352 9189

$$

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1 follow-up statement

470 
WWUS54 KLZK 300249
SVSLZK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
849 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2013

ARC011-300259-
/O.CAN.KLZK.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130130T0300Z/
BRADLEY AR-
849 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2013

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL BRADLEY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR ARKANSAS.

LAT...LON 3364 9190 3390 9170 3380 9156 3378 9156
      3378 9154 3373 9147 3353 9175
TIME...MOT...LOC 0249Z 220DEG 53KT 3365 9174

$$

ARC043-079-300300-
/O.CON.KLZK.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-130130T0300Z/
DREW AR-LINCOLN AR-
849 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2013

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN AND
NORTHERN DREW COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CST...

AT 846 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS
DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MONTICELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60
MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE...
  MONTICELLO...         WARRENTON...          LAKE MONTICELLO...
  TYRO...               SELMA...              ROSE HILL...
  MONTONGO...           FLORENCE...           ENON...
  COLEMAN...            WELLS LAKE...         TROTTERS BRAKE...
  TENNESSEE...          SIXTEENTH SECTION...  MT PLEASANT...
  MONTICELLO MUNI ARPT...                     MINK TRACK BRAKE...
  MCCLOY PARK...

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.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR ARKANSAS.

LAT...LON 3364 9190 3390 9170 3380 9156 3378 9156
      3378 9154 3373 9147 3353 9175
TIME...MOT...LOC 0249Z 220DEG 53KT 3365 9174

$$

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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 29, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope, Searcy	37 min
Jan 29, 6:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	45 min
Jan 29, 6:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren and 1 more	23 min
Jan 29, 6:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	31 min
Jan 29, 6:39 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring	31 min
Jan 29, 6:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Pope, Scott and 1 more	3 hr
Jan 29, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren	29 min
Jan 29, 6:48 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Johnson, Marion, Newton, Pope and 2 more	3 hr
Jan 29, 6:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Pope, Yell	37 min
Jan 29, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Pulaski, Saline	49 min
Jan 29, 6:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	32 min
Jan 29, 7:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	40 min
Jan 29, 7:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Searcy and 3 more	45 min
Jan 29, 7:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	26 min
Jan 29, 7:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Yell	53 min
Jan 29, 7:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski	34 min
Jan 29, 7:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Marion, Searcy and 3 more	3 hr
Jan 29, 7:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Sharp and 3 more	48 min
Jan 29, 7:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Conway, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Saline, Yell	33 min
Jan 29, 8:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson	51 min
Jan 29, 8:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie	46 min
Jan 29, 8:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Stone and 2 more	3 hr
Jan 29, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Pike	26 min
Jan 29, 8:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White	48 min
Jan 29, 8:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln	34 min
Jan 29, 8:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	32 min
Jan 29, 8:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	29 min
Jan 29, 8:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	35 min
Jan 29, 9:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	48 min
Jan 29, 9:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	24 min
Jan 29, 9:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Monroe	33 min
Jan 29, 9:51 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe	3 hr
Jan 29, 10:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe, Prairie and 1 more	63 min
Jan 30, 12:34 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LZK	Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 15 more	17 hr
Jan 30, 12:34 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Independence, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more	17 hr

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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.