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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 521, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1999, 2:36 PM CDT for Polk County, Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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 29, 1999, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1999, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR
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 29, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 904 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 291937 RRA SVRLIT ARC113-127-292025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 236 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SCOTT COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS NORTHERN POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 325 PM CDT * AT 235 PM CDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MENA OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF Y CITY... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... Y CITY AROUND 250 PM CDT... PARKS AROUND 320 PM CDT... THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. SOME WIND DAMAGE MAY OCCUR...SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. 29/34
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
ARZ021-030-037-038-040-041-050>052-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 131 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 1999 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS EFFECTING FROM 130 PM UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...AND WERE MOVING EASTWARD. A NEARLY STATIONARY COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS NEAR MENA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA...BUT THE MAIN AREA WILL ARRIVE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS AFTER 3 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD AT NEARLY 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. 34
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
ARZ021-030-037-038-040-041-050>052-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 131 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 1999 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS EFFECTING FROM 130 PM UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...AND WERE MOVING EASTWARD. A NEARLY STATIONARY COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS NEAR MENA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA...BUT THE MAIN AREA WILL ARRIVE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS AFTER 3 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD AT NEARLY 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. 34
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 3:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 5:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, White | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White, Woodruff | 51 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.