Severe Thunderstorm Warning 424, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Sep 1, 2000, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)

Expired

Sep 1, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Whole counties

County Hot Spring County, 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.

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WUUS54 KLZK 011942
SVRLIT
ARC059-012030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
242 PM CDT FRI SEP 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOT SPRING COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 239 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ROCKPORT...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF
  MALVERN...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MALVERN AND PERLA AROUND 250 PM CDT

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND
GUSTY WINDS. SOME DAMAGE MAY OCCUR SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS
AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO TH
E NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 1, 10:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1057 AM CDT FRI SEP 1 2000

I WILL BE UPDATING THE ZONES SHORTLY TO INCLUDE A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR MY ENTIRE CWFA...AS THERE ARE SOME SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE ARKADELPHIA AND CAMDEN AREAS.
MORE ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. IT
APPEARS THAT THE TEMPERATURES ARE RUNNING COOLER TODAY THAN
YESTERDAY. SO...I HAVE LOWERED THE TEMPERATURES A CATEGORY IN THE
CENTRAL THIRD OF MY CWFA FROM 105 TO 110 TO NEAR 105. HIGHS SHOULD
STILL BE NEAR RECORDS WITH THE FOLLOWING LIST OF RECORDS FOR TODAY.

SOME RECORDS FOR TODAY 9/1

LOCATION          RECORD      YEAR
--------          ------      ----
HARRISON           100       1947-1951
HOT SPRINGS        106       1947
NORTH LITTLE ROCK  106       1947
PINE BLUFF         105       1938

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.LIT...HEAT ADVISORY TODAY THROUGH SATURIDAY FOR
    ZONES 16-21-22-25-30>34-37>47-52>57-62>69

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.