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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 26, 2000Polk County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2000, 1:25 AM CST for Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 65 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 26, 2000, 1:25 AM CST (07:25 UTC)
Expired: Feb 26, 2000, 2:30 AM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Polk County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 26, 1:55 AM CST	Hail 0.75	Potter, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 26, 12:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 26, 12:15 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 12:15 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1215 AM CST SAT FEB 26 2000

COLD FRONT BECOMING ACTIVE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING.
SCATTERED STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG FRONT...AND
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED UNTIL 5 AM FOR NORTHERN/WESTERN
ARKANSAS.

LATER THIS MORNING/AFTERNOON...FRONT TO MOVE THROUGH ARKANSAS.
COULD SEE SOME SEVERE WEATHER CENTRAL/EAST...WITH THUNDERSTORMS
BECOMING LIKELY. FARTHER WEST...DRIER AIR/DECREASING CLOUDS
EXPECTED.

SATURDAY NIGHT...SOME LEFTOVER SHOWERS IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
OTHERWISE PARTLY CLOUDY AND MUCH COOLER.

DRY WEATHER IN THE FORECAST SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH
TEMPERATURES REMAINIbNG ABOVE NORMAL. (46)

.LIT...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 26, 12:30 AM CST, 55 minutes before

ARZ003>006-012>015-021>023-030-031-037>041-052-261100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1230 AM CST SAT FEB 26 2000

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS
UNTIL 5 AM CST...

A COLD FRONT IN WESTERN ARKANSAS WAS BECOMING ACTIVE EARLY THIS
MORNING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG
AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. AS A
RESULT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MUCH OF
NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 5 AM CST.

THE WATCH INCLUDES AREAS WEST OF SALEM...PERRYVILLE AND
MURFREESBORO.

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR
SEVERE WEATHER EARLY THlIS MORNING. BE READY TO TAKE QUICK
ACTION AND FIND ADEQUATE SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR
AREA.

46

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 26, 12:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	63 min
Feb 26, 1:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	66 min
Feb 26, 2:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	63 min
Feb 26, 2:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	48 min
Feb 26, 3:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	49 min
Feb 26, 3:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	66 min
Feb 26, 4:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	50 min
Feb 26, 6:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	48 min
Feb 26, 8:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha	49 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.