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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 26, 2000Baxter County, Stone County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 9:58 PM CDT for Baxter County, Stone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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 26, 2000, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Baxter County, AR, Stone County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 10:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Onia, AR
May 26, 10:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Mountain View, 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 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, 6 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:35 PM CDT, 6 hours 23 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

Special weather statement, May 26, 4:50 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	51 min
May 26, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard, Stone	54 min
May 26, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	69 min
May 26, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	60 min
May 27, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	53 min
May 27, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	54 min
May 27, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Pope, Yell	67 min
May 27, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	57 min
May 27, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	53 min
May 27, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone	56 min
May 27, 2:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren	3 hr
May 27, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	51 min
May 27, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	66 min
May 27, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	47 min
May 27, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	48 min
May 27, 9:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	47 min
May 27, 9:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	29 min
May 27, 9:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Stone	44 min
May 27, 9:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	44 min
May 27, 10:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Sharp	59 min
May 27, 3:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Izard, Stone, Van Buren	3 hr
May 27, 3:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Polk	3 hr
May 27, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	55 min
May 27, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	24 min
May 27, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Ouachita	37 min
May 27, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	33 min
May 27, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Saline	24 min
May 27, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland	36 min
May 27, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	34 min
May 27, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	28 min
May 27, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha	30 min
May 27, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	41 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.