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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 18, 2019, 4:39 PM CDT for Dallas County, Grant County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 15 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
- May 18, 2019, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2019, 4:54 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Dallas County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 12:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Polk, Scott | 52 min |
| May 18, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan | 36 min |
| May 18, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 50 min |
| May 18, 2:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Montgomery | 56 min |
| May 18, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 53 min |
| May 18, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Yell | 43 min |
| May 18, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren and 1 more | 53 min |
| May 18, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone, Marion | 46 min |
| May 18, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 60 min |
| May 18, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 54 min |
| May 18, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Perry, Saline | 56 min |
| May 18, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 2 more | 39 min |
| May 18, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Saline | 40 min |
| May 18, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita | 54 min |
| May 18, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Sharp and 1 more | 40 min |
| May 18, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski, White | 45 min |
| May 18, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, White | 41 min |
| May 18, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson | 66 min |
| May 18, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie | 43 min |
| May 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Randolph, Sharp | 45 min |
| May 18, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 58 min |
| May 18, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 54 min |
| May 18, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie | 28 min |
| May 18, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson | 26 min |
| May 18, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 11 min |
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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.