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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 466, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 8, 2000Drew County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 2:49 PM CST for Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 56 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
Nov 8, 2000, 2:49 PM CST (20:49 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 2000, 3:45 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Drew County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 208 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2000-11-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 203 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2000-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
211 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 8, 10:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas24 min
Nov 8, 11:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski45 min
Nov 8, 12:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie40 min
Nov 8, 2:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley56 min

Nearby

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

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.