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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 1, 2000Perry County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2000, 3:43 PM CDT for Perry County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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: Sep 1, 2000, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Perry County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 272 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

918 
WUUS54 KLZK 012043
SVRLIT
ARC105-012130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 338 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERRYVILLE...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 1, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	41 min
Sep 1, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	39 min
Sep 1, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	50 min
Sep 1, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	47 min
Sep 1, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	48 min
Sep 1, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	48 min
Sep 1, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	44 min
Sep 1, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	48 min
Sep 1, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	52 min
Sep 1, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	47 min
Sep 1, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	48 min
Sep 1, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	41 min
Sep 1, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	50 min
Sep 1, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson, Pulaski	50 min
Sep 1, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	45 min
Sep 1, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun	48 min
Sep 1, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	39 min

Nearby

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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.