Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2001, 11:36 PM CDT for Bradley County, Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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 23, 2001, 11:36 PM CDT (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2001, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bradley County, AR, Drew County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 11:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Monticello, AR | Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees. |
| May 24, 12:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Monticello, AR | Several large trees were knocked down around Monticello. |
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 23, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 9:36 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 9:36 PM CDT, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR ISSUED BY NWS MEMPHIS 936 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2001 UPDATING FORECAST FOR MORE WIDESPREAD AREAL COVERAGE OF PRECIPITATION THAN EXPECTED. WILL ALSO MAKE MINOR CHANGES TO WINDS. .LIT...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson | 45 min |
| 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 | Desha | 54 min |
| May 24, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike | 54 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.