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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2020, 6:30 PM CDT for Logan County, Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 19, 2020, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2020, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.0 in
Counties Logan County, AR, Scott County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 19, 2:13 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 2:13 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 19, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 230 PM CDT Thu Mar 19 2020 ARZ003>008-012>017-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-201000- Boone-Marion-Baxter-Fulton-Sharp-Randolph-Newton-Searcy-Stone- Izard-Independence-Lawrence-Johnson-Pope-Van Buren-Cleburne- Jackson-Logan-Conway-Faulkner-White-Woodruff-Scott-Yell-Perry- Polk-Montgomery-Garland-Saline-Pulaski-Lonoke-Prairie-Monroe-Pike- Clark-Hot Spring-Grant-Jefferson-Arkansas-Dallas-Cleveland- Lincoln-Desha-Ouachita-Calhoun-Bradley-Drew- 230 PM CDT Thu Mar 19 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and Tonight Thunderstorms are expected across the area this afternoon through late this evening. Some storms could become strong to severe with damaging winds and tornadoes the main concerns. Locally heavy rainfall will also be possible across mainly western and northern locations, and some localized flash flooding could occur. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday Through Wednesday Rain will continue over southern Arkansas on Friday before exiting toward the Gulf Coast. It will turn much cooler, with a freeze likely in parts of the Ozark Mountains Saturday morning. Unsettled weather is in the forecast Sunday through Wednesday, with scattered showers and a few rumbles of thunder at times. Even so, impacts will be minor. No severe weather is expected, and any flash flooding will be localized. Rivers in southern and eastern sections of the state will remain elevated. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter Activation May Be Needed Thursday Evening. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton | 52 min |
| Mar 19, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 48 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.