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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2024, 3:10 AM CDT for Johnson County, Newton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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 7, 2024, 3:10 AM CDT (08:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2024, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Johnson County, AR, Newton County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1078 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 13.8
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 May 6, 6:37 PM CDT, 8 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 6:37 PM CDT, 8 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 2:36 PM CDT, 12 hours 34 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 236 PM CDT Mon May 6 2024 ARZ004>008-014>017-024-025-031>034-039-042>047-052>057-062>069- 103-112-113-121>123-130-137-138-140-141-203-212-213-221>223-230- 237-238-240-241-313-340-341-071000- Marion-Baxter-Fulton-Sharp-Randolph-Stone-Izard-Independence- Lawrence-Cleburne-Jackson-Conway-Faulkner-White-Woodruff-Perry- Garland-Saline-Pulaski-Lonoke-Prairie-Monroe-Pike-Clark- Hot Spring-Grant-Jefferson-Arkansas-Dallas-Cleveland-Lincoln- Desha-Ouachita-Calhoun-Bradley-Drew-Boone County Except Southwest- Newton County Higher Elevations-Searcy County Lower Elevations- Southern Johnson County-Southern Pope County- Southeast Van Buren County-Western and Northern Logan County- Northern Scott County-Northwest Yell County- Polk County Lower Elevations- Central and Eastern Montgomery County- Boone County Higher Elevations-Newton County Lower Elevations- Northwest Searcy County Higher Elevations- Johnson County Higher Elevations-Pope County Higher Elevations- Van Buren County Higher Elevations- Southern and Eastern Logan County- Central and Southern Scott County-Yell Excluding Northwest- Northern Polk County Higher Elevations- Northern Montgomery County Higher Elevations- Eastern, Central, and Southern Searcy County Higher Elevations- Southeast Polk County Higher Elevations- Southwest Montgomery County Higher Elevations- 236 PM CDT Mon May 6 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible through this evening across portions of southern and western Arkansas. A few storms could produce heavy downpours, gusty winds and some small hail. Around midnight a line of strong to severe thunderstorms is expected to move into portions of west and northwest Arkansas. These storms will move east through sunrise and will be capable of producing damaging winds gusts, hail, heavy downpours and perhaps a couple of tornadoes. This activity is expected to weaken as it moves east. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday Chances for severe weather will increase Wednesday into Wednesday night with all modes of severe weather possible, including very large hail and isolated tornadoes. Locally heavy downpours may lead to spotty flash flooding. Hit and miss showers and storms will linger on Thursday before cooler, drier, and more seasonal air returns Friday into the weekend. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation is not expected. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk. 70/46/67
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 1:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone, Newton | 32 min |
| May 7, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Yell | 48 min |
| May 7, 3:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 8 min |
| May 7, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 1 more | 49 min |
| May 7, 3:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone, Marion, Searcy | 31 min |
| May 7, 4:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Marion, Searcy | 41 min |
| May 7, 4:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Searcy and 3 more | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleburne, Independence | 30 min |
| May 7, 5:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton | 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.