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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 416, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 31, 2000Cleburne County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT for Cleburne County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 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
Aug 31, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Cleburne County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 2000-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 718 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 2000-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
718 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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 Aug 31, 2:58 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 2:58 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke, White29 min
Aug 31, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, White46 min
Aug 31, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence49 min
Aug 31, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.