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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 307, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 2, 2000Clark County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 6:37 PM CDT for Clark County, Arkansas. It was in force for 23 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
Jun 2, 2000, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clark County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 322 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 2, 4:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 4:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...RESEND
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
315 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 2000

SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSHOWERS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY IN
NORTHERN/WESTERN ARKANSAS AHEAD OF SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT.
THUNDERSHOWERS ARE SLOW MOVING...AND COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN. ADVERTISED AS SUCH IN FORECAST THIS EVENING.

OVERNIGHT...PRECIPITATION WILL DISSIPATE WITH FRONT MOVING THROUGH
ABOUT HALF OF THE STATE. FRONT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL WEAKEN...WITH ONLY
WIDELY SCATTERED PRECIPITATION AND CONTINUED WARM TEMPERATURES ON
SATURDAY.

SHORTWAVE IN SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL MOVE INTO ARKANSAS SATURDAY
NIGHT/SUNDAY WITH INCREASING CLOUDS AND BETTER CHANCES FOR SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSHOWERS.

YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL HEAD INTO THE STATE FROM THE NORTHWEST
ON MONDAY. APPEARS THAT SHORTWAVE WILL ROB MOISTURE FROM THE
FRONT...SO ADVERTISED SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS AS FRONT GOES
THROU}GH.

COOLER/DRIER AIR WILL FOLLOW FRONT TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY.  (46)

.LIT...NONE.

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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.