Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 61
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Fulton and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Drew, Hempstead, Lafayette and 5 more | 6 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.