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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 3, 2000Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 10:19 PM CDT for Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 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: May 3, 2000, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KLZK 040324 COR
SVRLIT
ARC085-119-040400-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1019 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LONOKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1011 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF   
  WRIGHTSVILLE TO 15 MILES EAST OF KEO...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  CARLISLE...LONOKE AROUND 1030 PM CDT
  GRAVEL RIDGE...JACKSONVILLE AROUND 1035 PM CDT
  GIBSON AROUND 1040 PM CDT
  AUSTIN...CABOT AROUND 1045 PM CDT

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND
GUSTY WINDS. SOME 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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICEM FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

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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 May 3, 4:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 4:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
400 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

UPPER LOW A LITTLE CLOSER TO ARKANSAS TODAY AND LOOKS LIKE IT MAY REACH
INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY, BUT MAY RETROGRADE AFTER
THAT. BASICALLY LOOKS LIKE LITTLE CHANGE THROUGH FRIDAY. MOISTURE A
LITTLE HIGHER IN THE SOUTH, SO WILL GO A LITTLE HIGHER ON POPS IN
THE SOUTH. OTHERWISE, WILL SEE BASICALLY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WITH MORE COVERAGE IN THE AFTERNOON. POPS WILL GENERALLY
BE 30 BY NIGHT AND 40 BY DAY IN THE NORTH AND 40 BY NIGHT AND 50 BY DAY
IN THE SOUTH WITH HIGHER QPF IN THE SOUTH. WILL GO CLOSE TO PERSISTENCE
ON TEMPERATURE FORECASTS, BUT WILL GO A LITTLE HIGHER ON MAXES FOR
FRIDAY.

.LIT...NONE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson	30 min
May 4, 6:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant	28 min
May 4, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	28 min
May 4, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	35 min
May 4, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.