Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2000, 6:25 AM CST for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 29, 2000, 6:25 AM CST (12:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 7:15 AM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 29, 3:45 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 3:45 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 345 AM CST WED MAR 29 2000 FOCUS MAINLY ON THE NEAR TERM OR FIRST 24 HOURS OF FORECAST THIS MORNING. BASICALLY WENT WITH THE MESO-ETA MODEL WHICH SUGGESTS WEAK FORCING THIS MORNING..BUT ANOTHER SHORT WAVE REACHING THE WESTERN BORDER OF ARKANSAS AROUND 21Z THIS AFTERNOON PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR BETTER COVERAGE OF CONVECTION. IT APPEARS THAT NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT JUST NORTH OF SOUTHERN BORDER LAST EVENING..HAS SAGGED A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTHWARD. MESO-ETA ALSO SUGGESTS SOME SURFACE RIDGING INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS TODAY. STILL SUSPECT NORTHEAST FLOW WILL PREVAIL TODAY OVER MANY AREAS..AND THUS FRH TEMPS A LITTLE TOO WARM. .LIT...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 4:45 AM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 47 min |
| Mar 29, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 33 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.