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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 7, 2026Johnson County, Newton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2026, 2:46 PM CDT for Johnson County, Newton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 18 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 7, 2026, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2026, 3:04 PM CDT
In force: 18 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 19:46 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
Jun 7, 2:31 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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.

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: 416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 7, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:15 PM CDT, 31 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 6, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	3 hr
Jun 6, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	51 min
Jun 6, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk	19 min
Jun 6, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	39 min
Jun 6, 9:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	49 min
Jun 6, 10:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	114 min
Jun 7, 7:02 AM CDT	Flood Watch	LZK	Boone, Johnson, Logan, Marion, Newton, Polk and 2 more	30 hr
Jun 7, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	37 min
Jun 7, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott	33 min
Jun 7, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	31 min
Jun 7, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	25 min
Jun 7, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Montgomery	45 min
Jun 7, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland	44 min
Jun 7, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	24 min
Jun 7, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Prairie, Woodruff	43 min
Jun 7, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland	27 min
Jun 7, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	46 min
Jun 7, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	31 min
Jun 7, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	31 min
Jun 7, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	23 min
Jun 7, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	26 min
Jun 7, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	26 min
Jun 7, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, White	30 min
Jun 7, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton	27 min
Jun 7, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	34 min
Jun 7, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	34 min
Jun 7, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Dallas	33 min
Jun 7, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski	23 min
Jun 7, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson	26 min
Jun 7, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	39 min
Jun 7, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	37 min
Jun 7, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Calhoun	33 min
Jun 7, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson	44 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.