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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 28, 2026Independence County, Stone County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2026, 2:17 PM CDT for Independence County, Stone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 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 28, 2026, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2026, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Independence County, AR, Stone County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Apr 28, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 1333 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 27, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	41 min
Apr 27, 8:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	43 min
Apr 27, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Randolph, Sharp	38 min
Apr 27, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Randolph, Sharp	45 min
Apr 27, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Randolph, Sharp	44 min
Apr 27, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Randolph	29 min
Apr 27, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Izard, Searcy, Stone	39 min
Apr 27, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Lawrence, Sharp	50 min
Apr 27, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	38 min
Apr 27, 10:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Lawrence, Sharp	39 min
Apr 27, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard, Stone	50 min
Apr 27, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Randolph	8 min
Apr 27, 10:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp	17 min
Apr 27, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp	41 min
Apr 27, 10:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Stone	46 min
Apr 27, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Sharp	30 min
Apr 27, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	52 min
Apr 27, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	45 min
Apr 27, 11:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	22 min
Apr 28, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	46 min
Apr 28, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	38 min
Apr 28, 11:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	40 min
Apr 28, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Boone, Newton	61 min
Apr 28, 11:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	50 min
Apr 28, 12:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk, Scott	38 min
Apr 28, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott	27 min
Apr 28, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy	59 min
Apr 28, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope	52 min
Apr 28, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike	36 min
Apr 28, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Searcy, Stone	54 min
Apr 28, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope, Van Buren	50 min
Apr 28, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	48 min
Apr 28, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	42 min
Apr 28, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff	62 min
Apr 28, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski	27 min
Apr 28, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone	52 min
Apr 28, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Sharp	29 min
Apr 28, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln	27 min
Apr 28, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	38 min
Apr 28, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy	47 min
Apr 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	46 min
Apr 28, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy	38 min
Apr 28, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Scott, Yell	14 min
Apr 28, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Van Buren	39 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.