Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2001, 12:27 AM CDT for Bradley County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 19, 2001, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2001, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bradley County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 12:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Warren, AR | Thunderstorm winds blew down two large trees in Warren. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1422 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 May 18, 3:50 PM CDT, 8 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:50 PM CDT, 8 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 350 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001 MCS RAPIDLY FELL APART IN WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING...BUT UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH MCS RATHER STRONG AND ALONG ARKANSAS/MISSOURI BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. COLD FRONT ALSO MOVING INTO STATE FROM NORTHWEST. SCATTERED STORMS FLARED UP AHEAD OF SYSTEM/FRONT...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH POSTED IN NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE UNTIL 9 PM. OVERNIGHT...IN ADDITION TO SYSTEM/FRONT...UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER ARKANSAS FROM OKLAHOMA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE NORTH AND WEST THIS EVENING...THEN DRY. FARTHER SOUTH/EAST...SYSTEM SLOW TO PUSH THROUGH...SO CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION MENTIONED ALL NIGHT. BY SATURDAY...LOOKS LIKE FRONT PUSHING TO SOUTH AND UPPER SYSTEM TO EAST. DRIER AIR LEFT BEHIND AND REMOVED MENTION OF THUNDERSHOWERS IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. IN CENTRAL/SOUTH...AFTERNOON HEATING MAY TRIGGER A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS...BUT MOST AREAS WILL REMAIN DRY. LOOKING AHEAD...FRONT WILL MOVE BACK TO THE NORTH SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY WITH GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY...STRONG COLD FRONT WILL ARDRIVE FROM PLAINS WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY AGAIN. DRIER/COOLER AIR EXPECTED BEHIND LATTER FRONT. (46) .LIT...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 18, 9:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
ARZ037-040>047-052>057-062>069-190400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED ZONE CODING... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 911 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 248 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... SCOTT...POLK...MONTGOMERY...GARLAND...SALINE...PULASKI...LONOKE... PRAIRIE...MONROE...PIKE...HOT SPRING...GRANT...AND JEFFERSON. AT 910 PM...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THE PRECIPITATION CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 248 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ARKANSAS...CLARK...DALLAS...CLEVELAND...LINCOLN...DESHA...OUACHITA... CALHOUN...BRADLEY...AND DREW. 22
Local storm report, May 18, 9:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
929 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM BILLSTOWN AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/18/01 PIKE LOTS OF DIME TO NICKEL
SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
DECK. REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, May 18, 9:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
949 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0948 PM CHIDESTER AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/01 OUACHITA REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.Local storm report, May 18, 10:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1046 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1020 PM 3 E CAMDEN AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/01 OUACHITA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1035 PM HAMPTON AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/01 CALHOUN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.Local storm report, May 18, 10:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1055 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1040 PM 2 SE HAMPTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/01 CALHOUN AT THE HAMPTON AIRPORT.
REPORTED BY THE
SHERIFFS OFFICE.'
1048 PM HARRELL AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/01 CALHOUN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.Local storm report, May 18, 11:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 37 min |
| May 18, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 38 min |
| May 18, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 30 min |
| May 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 33 min |
| May 18, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 48 min |
| May 18, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 50 min |
| May 18, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 48 min |
| May 18, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 20 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.