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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 26, 2000Newton County, Searcy County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 9:14 PM CDT for Newton County, Searcy County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report 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 26, 2000, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2000, 10:05 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Newton County, AR, Searcy County, AR

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 9:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EMt Judea, 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1527 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 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1527 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
10.2

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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 May 26, 3:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
335 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

WILL HAVE TO BE BRIEF DUE TO ONGOING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS
IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THAT NEXT FRONT WILL COME INTO AR SATURDAY
EVENING. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS LATER
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS PER SWODY2 DISCO. MAY ALSO BE A
THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS VERY LATE TONIGHT OVER NORTHWEST HALF OF AR
IF SQUALL LINE GETS GOING OVER OK AND HOLDS TOGETHER AS IT HEADS
TOWARD THE REGION. THINK MOST OF THE NIGHT WILL BE RAINFREE...EXCEPT
FOR THE STORMS VERY EARLY THIS EVENING OVER EASTERN AR.

SHOULD BE DRY AND WARM SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

WILL SHAVE A FEW DEGREES OFF 4TH PERIOD NGM MOS TEMPS FOR SUNDAY.

(45)

.LIT...NONE.

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Stone47 min
May 26, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard, Stone54 min
May 26, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp69 min
May 26, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson60 min
May 27, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson53 min
May 27, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton54 min
May 27, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Pope, Yell67 min
May 27, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy57 min
May 27, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Van Buren53 min
May 27, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone56 min
May 27, 2:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKJohnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren3 hr
May 27, 2:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne51 min
May 27, 3:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence66 min
May 27, 3:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp47 min
May 27, 3:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson48 min
May 27, 9:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion47 min
May 27, 9:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter29 min
May 27, 9:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Izard, Stone44 min
May 27, 9:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton44 min
May 27, 10:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Sharp59 min
May 27, 3:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKIzard, Stone, Van Buren3 hr
May 27, 3:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Montgomery, Polk3 hr
May 27, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark55 min
May 27, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery24 min
May 27, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas, Ouachita37 min
May 27, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott33 min
May 27, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Saline24 min
May 27, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun, Cleveland36 min
May 27, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell34 min
May 27, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland28 min
May 27, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Desha30 min
May 27, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.