Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 9:28 PM CDT for Boone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 min. 14 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2000, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 10:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:43 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lead Hill, AR | |
| May 24, 9:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Alpena, AR | |
| May 24, 9:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Alpena, AR | |
| May 24, 9:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lead Hill, AR | |
| May 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Harrison, AR | |
| May 24, 9:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Harrison, AR | |
| May 24, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Harrison, AR | |
| May 24, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bergman, AR | |
| May 24, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bergman, AR | |
| May 24, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bergman, AR | |
| May 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bellefonte, AR | |
| May 24, 9:52 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Valley Spgs, AR | |
| May 24, 9:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Valley Spgs, AR | |
| May 24, 9:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Valley Spgs, AR |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
934 WUUS54 KLZK 250232 SVRLIT ARC009-250320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 928 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1020 PM CDT * AT 925 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTH OF OMAHA TO 8 MILES NORTH OF HUNTSVILLE IN MADISON COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... DIAMOND CITY AROUND 950 PM CDT BERGMAN...HARRISON AROUND 1000 PM CDT BELLEFONTE AROUND 1010 PM CDT EVERTON...VALLEY SPRINGS AROUND 1015 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 STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 57 min |
| May 24, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 55 min |
| May 24, 10:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter | 42 min |
| May 24, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 46 min |
| May 24, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 56 min |
| May 24, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Stone | 66 min |
| May 24, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 55 min |
| May 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard | 50 min |
| May 24, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 50 min |
| May 24, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence | 57 min |
| May 25, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 56 min |
| May 25, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Newton | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.