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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 2, 1986Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1986, 1:36 AM CDT for Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1986, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1986, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, AR

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1986-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 542 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1986-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
542 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Marion65 min
Aug 1, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter75 min
Aug 1, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy58 min
Aug 1, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton, Izard61 min
Aug 1, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone55 min
Aug 1, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp66 min
Aug 1, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence70 min
Aug 1, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLawrence, Randolph63 min
Aug 1, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Van Buren69 min
Aug 1, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson56 min
Aug 2, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Carroll62 min
Aug 2, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton61 min
Aug 2, 4:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner69 min
Aug 2, 4:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Perry69 min
Aug 2, 4:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke, White61 min
Aug 2, 4:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski, Saline61 min

Nearby

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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.