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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 120

March 26, 200043 counties in Arkansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 26, 2000, 4:00 PM CST for 43 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 26, 2000, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 43 counties

Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	47 min
Mar 26, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	35 min
Mar 26, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	46 min
Mar 26, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway	20 min
Mar 26, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	45 min
Mar 26, 5:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner	33 min
Mar 26, 5:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	39 min
Mar 26, 5:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford	50 min
Mar 26, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	41 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	50 min
Mar 26, 5:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison, Washington	60 min
Mar 26, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	51 min
Mar 26, 6:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	48 min
Mar 26, 6:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	51 min
Mar 26, 6:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	41 min
Mar 26, 6:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Logan	49 min
Mar 26, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Pope	49 min
Mar 26, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	66 min
Mar 26, 7:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	49 min
Mar 26, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Yell	62 min
Mar 26, 7:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry	48 min
Mar 26, 7:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk	58 min
Mar 26, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	50 min
Mar 26, 7:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	61 min
Mar 26, 7:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Lonoke, Prairie	50 min
Mar 26, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	50 min
Mar 26, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Pike	49 min
Mar 26, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	49 min
Mar 26, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	35 min
Mar 26, 9:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	33 min
Mar 26, 9:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada	43 min

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

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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.