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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jan 18, 2023, 12:01 PM CST for Calhoun County, Arkansas. It was in force for 17 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
- Jan 18, 2023, 12:01 PM CST (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2023, 12:18 PM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Calhoun County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 9:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 7:20 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Jefferson and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 18, 9:06 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleveland | 24 min |
| Jan 18, 9:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleveland | |
| Jan 18, 9:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 27 min |
| Jan 18, 10:10 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Hot Spring | 35 min |
| Jan 18, 10:18 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Jan 18, 10:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Ouachita | 38 min |
| Jan 18, 11:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 39 min |
| Jan 18, 11:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 26 min |
| Jan 18, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 25 min |
| Jan 18, 11:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita | 27 min |
| Jan 18, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita | 45 min |
| Jan 18, 12:47 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleveland | 43 min |
| Jan 18, 1:16 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun | 44 min |
| Jan 18, 1:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Drew, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jan 18, 2:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha | 42 min |
| Jan 18, 2:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Drew | 50 min |
| Jan 18, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha, Drew | 45 min |
| Jan 18, 3:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Arkansas | 26 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.