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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 18, 2000Desha County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 18, 2000, 3:15 PM CST for Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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: Feb 18, 2000, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Feb 18, 2000, 4:05 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Desha County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 18, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -282 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 519 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 495 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Feb 18, 3:15 PM CST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 3:15 PM CST, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 18, 12:10 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1210 PM CST THU FEB 18 2000

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

1156 AM    OWENSVILLE                AR   TORNADO (SEVERAL CALLS
02/18/00   SALINE                         FROM PUBLIC NOT CONFIRMED
                                          BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEM^ENT)

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Local storm report, Feb 18, 12:50 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1250 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

1215 PM    BENTON                    AR   TORNADO
02/18/00   SALINE                         DOWNTOWN BENTON..ALCOA
                                          ROAD..E OF CNTRL BUSINESS
                                          DISTRICT

1220 PM    BRYANT                    AR   1 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   SALINE

1220 PM    LITTLE ROCK               AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   PULASKI

1222 PM    BENTON                    AR   TORNADO
02/18/00   SALINE                         DAMAGE MILITARY AND I-30
                                          "TIRE TOWN" TREES DOWN CAR
                                          DEALER

1222 PM    BENTON                    AR   TORNADO
02/18/00   SALINE                         COUNTY COORDINATOR
                                          CONFIRMS DAMAGE NEAR I-30
                                          AND MILITARY RD SOME
                                          INJURIES

1225 PM    LITTLE ROCK               AR   FUNNEL CLOUD BASELINE AND
02/18/00   PULASKI                        GEYER SPRINGS

1227 PM    LITTLE ROCK               AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   PULASKI                        I-30 AND GEYER SPRINGS

1230 PM    ALEXANDER                 AR   FUNNEL CLOUD AT CHILDREN`S
02/18/00   SALINE                         COLONY

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Local storm report, Feb 18, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
130 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

1050 AM    NORMAN                    AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   MONTGOMERY

1130 AM    HOT SPGS                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   GARLAND                         HWY 270 AND HWY 227...ALSO
                                          SEES A WALL CLOUD.

1210 PM    HOT SPGS                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   GARLAND                        HWY 293

1230 PM    LITTLE ROCK               AR   1 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   PULASKI                        ALSO REPORTED WALL CLOUD
1250 PM    SCOTT                     AR   TORNADO
02/18/00   PULASKI                        PULASKI/LONOKE COUNTY LINE

0105 PM    OLYPHANT                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   JACKSON                        3 NORTHEAST OF OLYPHANT

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Local storm report, Feb 18, 1:50 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
150 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

1050 AM    NORMAN                    AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   MONTGOMERY

1130 AM    HOT SPGS                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   GARLAND                         HWY 270 AND HWY 227...ALSO
                                          SEES A WALL CLOUD.

1210 PM    HOT SPGS                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   GARLAND                        HWY 293

1230 PM    LITTLE ROCK               AR   1 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   PULASKI                        ALSO REPORTED WALL CLOUD

1250 PM    SCOTT                     AR   TORNADO
02/18/00   PULASKI                        PULASKI/LONOKE COUNTY LINE

0105 PM    OLYPHANT                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   JACKSON                        3 NORTHEAST OF OLYPHANT

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Local storm report, Feb 18, 2:12 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
212 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

1240 PM    BENTON                    AR   TORNADO
02/18/00   SALINE                         INJURIES AT RAZORBACK CAR
                                          WASH ON LANDERS DRIVE

0145 PM    WRIGHTSVILLE              AR   TORNADO
02/18/00   PULASKI                        TREES DOWN AT 13000 HWY
                                          365S

0155 PM    BRINKLEY                  AR   TORNADO
02/18/00   MONROE                         HIGHWAY SIGNS DOWN HWYS
                                          17...70 AND 302 FROM STATE
                                          POLICE.
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Local storm report, Feb 18, 3:07 PM CST, 8 minutes before

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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
Feb 18, 7:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	37 min
Feb 18, 7:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	33 min
Feb 18, 10:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	46 min
Feb 18, 10:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	36 min
Feb 18, 10:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Pope	47 min
Feb 18, 10:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	48 min
Feb 18, 11:19 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland	36 min
Feb 18, 11:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	50 min
Feb 18, 12:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	49 min
Feb 18, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	50 min
Feb 18, 12:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke	48 min
Feb 18, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	50 min
Feb 18, 12:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	48 min
Feb 18, 1:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie	47 min
Feb 18, 1:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe	47 min
Feb 18, 1:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	35 min
Feb 18, 1:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	51 min
Feb 18, 1:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	47 min
Feb 18, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland	49 min
Feb 18, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke	35 min
Feb 18, 2:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie	47 min
Feb 18, 2:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lincoln	48 min
Feb 18, 2:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe	51 min
Feb 18, 3:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	48 min
Feb 18, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.