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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 444, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 3, 2000Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2000, 6:11 PM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2000, 6:40 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pike County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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, 6:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Langley, 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -382 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 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 Sep 3, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 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.

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.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>69

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 3, 6:01 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
601 PM CDT SUN SEP 03 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0345 PM    DOVER                     AR   WIND DAMAGE
09/03/00   POPE                           TREES DOWN. REPORT FROM
                                          KARV RADIO IN
                                          RUSSELLVILLE.

0425 PM    HAVANA                    AR   WIND DAMAGE
09/03/00   YELL                           TREES DOWN ON STATE
                                          HIGHWAY 309. REPORT FROM
                          0                YELL COUNTY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE.

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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 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, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	48 min
Sep 3, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.