Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 443, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2000, 5:27 PM CDT for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Faulkner County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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, 5:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Springhill, 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
400 PM CDT SUN SEP 3 2000
BUSY DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER. UPPER LEVEL HIGH WILL STILL BASICALLY
CONTROL OUR WEATHER THROUGH THE WEEK WITH ONLY SLIGHT COOL DOWN IN
TEMPERATURES. HEAT ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY FOR MUCH OF
THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE AREA. I WENT HIGHER THAN THE
FAN/FWC POPS AND HIGHER THAN FAN/FWC TEMPERATURES.
(49)
.LIT...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY FOR PARTS CENTRAL
ARKANSAS - ZONES 16-25-33-34-46-47-57
HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY FOR THE REMAINDER OF
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CWFA ZONES 21-22-30>32-37>45-52>56-62>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, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Yell | 45 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.