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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 469, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 8, 2000Independence County, Jackson County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 8:37 PM CST for Independence County, Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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, 8:37 PM CST (02:37 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 2000, 9:15 PM CST
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2000-11-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2000-11-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 450 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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, 7:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke, Pulaski33 min
Nov 8, 8:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite49 min
Nov 8, 8:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne49 min
Nov 8, 11:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson32 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.