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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 17, 2000Cleveland County, Dallas County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 5:08 AM CST for Cleveland County, Dallas County, Arkansas. It was in force for 62 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
Feb 17, 2000, 5:08 AM CST (11:08 UTC)
Expired
Feb 17, 2000, 6:10 AM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cleveland County, AR, Dallas County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 17, 5:10 AM CSTHail 1.75Fordyce, AR
Feb 17, 5:20 AM CSTHail 0.75Kingsland, 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 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 Feb 17, 4:25 AM CST, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 4:25 AM CST, 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
425 AM CST THU FEB 17 2000

A BUSY MORNING...SO FORECAST DISCUSSION WILL BE SOMEWHAT SHORTENED.
MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT TODAY. MOISTURE WILL INCREASE ACROSS
ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT AS UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND SURFACE LOW
APPROACH FROM THE WEST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON THE
INCREASE STATEWIDE TODAY. A FEW MIGHT GET TO SEVERE LIMITS WITH HAIL
TODAY...BUT FIGURE THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE WILL BE TONIGHT AND
FRIDAY MORNING PER SPC DAY 1 OUTLOOK. TO GET MUCH SEVERE WEATHER
TONIGHT...STALLED FRONT OVER NORTHERN LOUISIANA EARLY THIS MORNING
WILL HAVE TO MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
AS A WARM FRONT...BUT THIS LOOKS REASONABLE GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF
THE STORM SYSTEM APPROACHING FROM THE WEST. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE
SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH ARKANSAS ON FRIDAY BRINGING MUCH COLDER
TEMPERATURES TO THE STATE FRIDAY NIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL END FROM THE WEST ON FRIDAY. HAVE MENTIONED A FEW SEVERE FRIDAY
OVER ABOUT THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE PER SPC DAY 2 OUTLOOK. NGM
MOS POPS AND TEMPERATURES LOOK PRETTY GOOD IN MOST AREAS...SO ONLY A
FEW ADJUSTMENTS MADE. (22)
>
.LIT...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 17, 4:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun35 min
Feb 17, 6:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson66 min
Feb 17, 6:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott51 min
Feb 17, 7:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDrew35 min
Feb 17, 7:37 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha63 min
Feb 17, 7:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.