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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 442, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT for Pope County, Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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
- Sep 3, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Pope County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 3:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Dover, AR | |
| Sep 3, 4:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Pottsville, AR | |
| Sep 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Havana, 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 705 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Sep 3, 3:15 AM CDT, 12 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 3:15 AM CDT, 12 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
315 AM CDT SUN SEP 3 2000
FORECAST SHOWS A HINT OF RAIN CHANCES...PERHAPS STARTING AS EARLY AS
MONDAY AFTERNOON AND CARRYING OVER INTO MONDAY NIGHT-EARLY TUESDAY.
FEATURES DO NOT SEEM TO PHASE IN CORRECTLY FOR HIGH CONFIDENCE.
SURFACE SOLUTION SHOWS MOISTURE MOVING SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS THE
STATE A LA BACK-DOOR FRONT MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY
AFTERNOON WHILE PVA DOES NOT GET GOING WELL UNTIL 12Z TUESDAY TO 00Z
WEDNESDAY. FORECAST WILL BE DRY TODAY AND TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH THERE
COULD BE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ON ACCOUNT OF
ABUNDANT HEATING. FORECAST WILL CONTAIN SLIGHT CHANCES OF
THUNDERSTORMS FOR LABOR DAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL
BE HIGH ENOUGH TO CONTINUE HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY AND MONDAY. 32
.LIT...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY CENTRAL AND SOUTH
ZONES 16-21-22-25-30>34-37>47-52>57-62V>69The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 48 min |
| Sep 3, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 29 min |
| Sep 3, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 41 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.