Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 467, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 7:57 PM CST for Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 min. 4 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
- Nov 8, 2000, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 8:02 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Jacksonville, AR | |
| Nov 8, 8:03 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Jacksonville, AR | |
| Nov 8, 8:05 PM CST | Hail 1 | Jacksonville, AR | |
| Nov 8, 8:13 PM CST | Hail 1 | Austin, 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 450 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 481 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 49 min |
| Nov 8, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 38 min |
| Nov 8, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 49 min |
| Nov 8, 11:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 32 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.