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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 13, 20224 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 2022, 11:03 AM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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: Apr 13, 2022, 11:03 AM CDT (16:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2022, 11:31 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Garland County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Perry County, AR, Yell County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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
Dec 31, 10:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	353 days
Apr 13, 10:37 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 1120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 649 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.7

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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 Apr 13, 6:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 6:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 4:04 AM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 13, 8:56 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 9:03 AM CDT, 2 hours before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 10:06 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 10:18 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 10:39 AM CDT, 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
Apr 12, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White	52 min
Apr 12, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring, Pike	45 min
Apr 12, 11:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring	86 min
Apr 13, 12:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	36 min
Apr 13, 3:34 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Fulton, Izard, Johnson and 11 more	28 hr
Apr 13, 3:34 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Independence, Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln and 6 more	15 hr
Apr 13, 6:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Montgomery	48 min
Apr 13, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark	32 min
Apr 13, 6:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	34 min
Apr 13, 6:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Dallas	33 min
Apr 13, 7:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	37 min
Apr 13, 7:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	49 min
Apr 13, 7:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	35 min
Apr 13, 8:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	31 min
Apr 13, 8:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	34 min
Apr 13, 9:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton, Izard	27 min
Apr 13, 9:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	33 days
Apr 13, 10:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	24 min
Apr 13, 10:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	27 min
Apr 13, 10:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Marion	36 min
Apr 13, 10:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Montgomery, Yell	24 min
Apr 13, 10:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Johnson, Marion, Newton	3 hr
Apr 13, 11:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion, Searcy, Stone	36 min
Apr 13, 11:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Saline, Van Buren and 1 more	47 min
Apr 13, 11:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Pike and 2 more	49 min
Apr 13, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Searcy, Stone and 1 more	45 min
Apr 13, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Ouachita	56 min
Apr 13, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Fulton, Izard, Randolph, Sharp, Stone and 1 more	38 min
Apr 13, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	57 min
Apr 13, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski and 1 more	51 min
Apr 13, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring	14 min
Apr 13, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	33 min
Apr 13, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Ouachita	43 min
Apr 13, 1:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	25 min
Apr 13, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke	35 min
Apr 13, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski	30 min
Apr 13, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	45 min
Apr 13, 1:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence, Lawrence, Sharp	37 min
Apr 13, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln	27 min
Apr 13, 2:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Lawrence, Sharp	88 min
Apr 13, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas	31 min
Apr 13, 2:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline, White	2 hr
Apr 13, 2:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita, Saline	116 min
Apr 13, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	46 min
Apr 13, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Ouachita	66 min
Apr 13, 3:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie and 2 more	94 min
Apr 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe	63 min
Apr 13, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln	55 min
Apr 13, 4:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Jefferson and 2 more	85 min
Apr 13, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	34 min
Apr 13, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Desha, Drew, Lincoln, Monroe	79 min
Apr 13, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	26 min
Apr 13, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Lincoln	50 min
Apr 13, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha	18 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.