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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2000, 2:07 AM CST for Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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
- Feb 26, 2000, 2:07 AM CST (08:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2000, 2:55 AM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:15 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Sims, AR | |
| Feb 26, 2:20 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Washita, AR | |
| Feb 26, 2:25 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Story, 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 260808 SVRLIT ARC097-260855- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 207 AM CST SAT FEB 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 255 AM CST * AT 207 AM CST... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOUNT IDA... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WASHITA AROUND 220 AM CST... STORY AROUND 220 AM CST... FANNIE AROUND 230 AM CST... THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNI NG AREA IS STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. SOME WIND DAMAGE MAY OCCUR...SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. 22/32
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 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 12:15 AM CST, 1 hour 52 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, 1 hour 37 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, 1:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 65 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, 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 |
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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.