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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 2000, 4:31 PM CST for Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Feb 23, 2000, 4:31 PM CST (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2000, 5:20 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Arkansas County, AR, Jefferson County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 5:05 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lodges Corners, 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 23, 2:38 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 2:38 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 238 PM CST WED FEB 23 2000 SINCE SATELLITE METEOROLOGY DICTATES SOME POSSIBLE LATE DEVELOPMENT FOR EARLY THIS EVENING WILL KEEP SMALL POPS EZARLY TONIGHT...OTHERWISE NVA WILL MOVE IN. TEMPS REASONABLE AND MODELS ARE IN FAIRR AGREEMENT. 38 .LIT...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas | 48 min |
| Feb 23, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 48 min |
| Feb 23, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.