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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 61

February 26, 200035 counties in Arkansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 26, 2000, 2:45 AM CST for 35 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 26, 2000, 2:45 AM CST (08:45 UTC)
Expired
Feb 26, 2000, 7:00 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Clark County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 3:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne49 min
Feb 26, 3:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, White66 min
Feb 26, 4:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski50 min
Feb 26, 6:32 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 250 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2000-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2000-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1356 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 12:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaxter, Boone, Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Fulton and 20 more5 hr
Feb 26, 1:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Drew, Hempstead, Lafayette and 5 more6 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.