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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 304, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 27, 2000Arkansas County, Desha County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT for Arkansas County, Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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 27, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Desha County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 481 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 318 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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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 27, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
345 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

VERY SHORT ON TIME DUE TO WEATHER AND NO WSR-88D AT LIT.

LOOKS AS THOUGH BACK-BUILDING...QUASI-STATIONARY MCS MAY DEVELOP
THIS EVENING ALONG OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM EARLIER CONVECTION AS
PER SPC DISCO. ALREADY GETTING REPORTS OF FLOODING IN SOME AREAS OF
NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST AR. WITH HEAVY RAIN A GOOD POSSIBLITY
INTO THE EVENING...WILL GO WITH A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES
IN  THE FORECAST AREA EXCEPT THE FAR NORTHWEST COUNTIES. SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT LOOKS TO BE HIGHEST OVER THE SOUTH HALF OF THE
STATE...WHERE THE AIR HAS BEEN LESS WORKED OVER BY PREVIOUS
CONVECTION.

LOOKS HIGH AND DRY SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS HUGE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER
THE SOUTHERN PALINS.

NGM MOS TEMPS LOOK TOO WARM SUN/MON HIGHS...ESPECIALLY WITH A MOIST
GROUND. WILL SHADE CLOSER TO THE COOLER FAN NUMBERS.
(45)

.LIT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ALL ZONES EXCEPT 3-4-5-12-13-21.

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, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton, Searcy51 min
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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.