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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 27, 2000Montgomery County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 7:24 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Montgomery County, AR

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 27, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 229 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2595 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2000-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.7

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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, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 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

Special weather statement, May 27, 1:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 27, 5:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
ARZ037-040-041-052-280000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
559 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND
SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 11 PM...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FPARTS OIF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 11 PM. THIS
WATCH AREA INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SCOTT...POLK...
MONTGOMERY AND PIKE.

A CLUSTER OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS
SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS WILL MOVE INTO PARTS OF
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTRHERN ARKANSAS THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WING IN
EXCESS OF 58 MPH WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS.
ALTHOUGH...LARGE HAIL MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS SHOULD MONITOR THE
WEATHER CLOSELY THIS EVENING. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAYED
TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV...OR CABLE TV FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 8:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Pulaski, Saline105 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2000Every 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.