Funnel Cloud, Polk
- When
- September 21, 9:50 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County, Nunley
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.486, -94.228 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Arkansas, September 21, 2006
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Sep 21, 5:59 PM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 5:59 PM CST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 659 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006 .AVIATION... CONVECTION HAS BEEN SUBDUED SO FAR ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA...BUT THAT WILL NOT BE THE CASE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE FORECAST. BANDED STRUCTURE TO THE CONVECTION HAS ONE LINE TAKING SHAPE NOW OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS...AND ANOTHER FROM SOUTHEAST KANSAS TO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ON TO THE RED RIVER. CAPE VALUES WILL BE INCREASING DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 247 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006/ LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY QUIET WEATHER IN THE EXTENDED AS HIGH PRESSURE IN CONTROL. FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH ON THURSDAY...BUT MOISTURE NOT OVERLY IMPRESSIVE. AS SUCH...ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ON THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE EXTENDED. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && AVIATION...32
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 21, 12:05 PM CST, 9 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 105 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-221000- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 105 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY BRINGING WARM HUMID AIR TO THE STATE. AS A BOUNDARY APPROACHES FROM THE WEST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN CONCERNS. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS...MAINLY IN AREAS WEST OF LITTLE ROCK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WARM HUMID AIR WILL REMAIN OVER THE STATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY...WITH ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE. AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES SATURDAY...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THIS LINE WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...BUT THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. ALL HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL BE OUT OF THE AREA BY SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT MOSTLY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS. VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WWW.WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 58
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:50 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Strong Wind in Louisiana, September 21, 2006
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, September 21, 2006
- Tornado in Louisiana, September 21, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, September 21, 2006
- Strong Wind in Kansas, September 21, 2006
- Strong Wind in Kansas, September 21, 2006
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, September 21, 2006
- High Wind in Oklahoma, September 21, 2006
- Tornadoes in Kansas, September 21, 2006
- Tornado in Arkansas, September 21, 2006
- Tornado in Louisiana, September 21, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, September 21, 2006
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, September 2006
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5534712.