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Tornado Warning 79, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 18, 2023Lawrence County, Randolph County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 2023, 4:53 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Randolph County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 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: Jun 18, 2023, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2023, 5:33 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Lawrence County, AR, Randolph County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 18, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 1:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 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
Jun 17, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott	43 min
Jun 18, 12:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan, Montgomery, Scott, Yell	41 min
Jun 18, 12:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Pike	35 min
Jun 18, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike, Polk	62 min
Jun 18, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson, Logan	48 min
Jun 18, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Pike	45 min
Jun 18, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell	55 min
Jun 18, 1:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope	15 min
Jun 18, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring and 4 more	38 min
Jun 18, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew and 4 more	39 min
Jun 18, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Ouachita, Pike	66 min
Jun 18, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Newton, Perry, Pope and 2 more	62 min
Jun 18, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski and 1 more	51 min
Jun 18, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant and 1 more	60 min
Jun 18, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Stone, Van Buren and 1 more	55 min
Jun 18, 2:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie	27 min
Jun 18, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun	52 min
Jun 18, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Jefferson and 1 more	58 min
Jun 18, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	42 min
Jun 18, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Woodruff	41 min
Jun 18, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	47 min
Jun 18, 3:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	33 min
Jun 18, 5:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	36 min
Jun 18, 5:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk, Scott	54 min
Jun 18, 8:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ouachita	25 min
Jun 18, 8:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	35 min
Jun 18, 9:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	37 min
Jun 18, 10:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	28 min
Jun 18, 10:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	34 min
Jun 18, 10:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	28 min
Jun 18, 10:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark	31 min
Jun 18, 10:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	31 min
Jun 18, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	28 min
Jun 18, 11:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson	30 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.