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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 23, 2001Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT for Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Jefferson County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 8.7

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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 23, 2:38 PM CDT, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 2:38 PM CDT, 6 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 23, 3:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	40 min
May 23, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	42 min
May 23, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	41 min
May 23, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Monroe	45 min
May 23, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Lincoln	53 min
May 23, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	53 min
May 23, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	50 min
May 23, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	54 min
May 23, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	54 min
May 24, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.