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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 28, 2001Arkansas County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 1:10 AM CDT for Arkansas County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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 28, 2001, 1:10 AM CDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Arkansas County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 1665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 27, 1:30 PM CDT, 11 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:30 PM CDT, 11 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
130 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

MCS COMPLEX COULD AFFECT AR LATER TONIGHT WITH NW FLOW AND GOOD PVA
INDICATED ACROSS WEST AND SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT. IN THE MEANTIME WEAK
OUTFLOW FROM NE TX CONVECTION EARLIER MAY SET OFF CONVECTION CENTRAL
AND SOUTH THIS EVE SO PUT CHC POPS THIS EVENING THEN INCREASING TO
LIKELY LATER WITH MAIN SYSTEM. MOS POPS PROBABLY TOO LOW FOR MON
AND TUE AS ATMOS STILL UNSTABLE ENUF ESPECIALLY ON TUE WITH GOOD PVA
AGAIN MOVING ACRS STATE IN NW FLOW. SHUD BE SCT TSTMS THRU WED AS
UPPER SYSTEM OVER IL BEGINS TO FINALLY MOVE EAST BY END OF WEEK.

(ZIEGENBEIN - MY LAST AFD/ZONES  - RETIRING AFT@ER 32 YEARS)

.LIT...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 9:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
937 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0915 PM    DAISY                     AR   .88 INCH HAIL
05/27/01   PIKE                           REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE.

Local storm report, May 27, 10:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1008 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0937 PM    DAISY                     AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01   PIKE                           EVENT DURATION 3
                                          MINUTES. REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE.

0938 PM    5 S KIRBY                 AR   1 INCH HAIL
05/27/01   PIKE                           IN THE COWHIDE AREA.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

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Local storm report, May 27, 10:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1029 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1020 PM    5 SSW KIRBY               AR   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/01   PIKE                           LARGE LIMBS DOWN AT
                                          COWHIDE COVE ON LAKE
                                          GREESON. REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE.

Local storm report, May 27, 10:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1051 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1045 PM    5 SSW KIRBY               AR   FLOOD
05/27/01   PIKE                           WATER OVER ARKANSAS
                                          HIGHWAY 27 BETWEEN
                                          MURFREESBORO AND KIRBY.
                                          WATER POURING OFF THE
                                          HILL AT COWHIDE COVE.
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, May 27, 11:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1109 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1105 PM    5 S KIRBY                 AR   FLOOD
05/27/01   PIKE                           4 FEET OF WATER ON
                                          ARKANSAS HIGHWAY 27.
                                          NEARBY CAMPGROUNDS ON
  s                                        LAKE GREESON BEING
                                          EVACUATED. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, May 27, 11:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 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 27, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	40 min
May 27, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	49 min
May 27, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	39 min
May 27, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	23 min
May 27, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	41 min
May 27, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	32 min
May 27, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	39 min
May 27, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	48 min
May 27, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	29 min
May 27, 10:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Pike	2 hr
May 27, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	45 min
May 27, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	39 min
May 27, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	44 min
May 27, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland	42 min
May 27, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	38 min
May 27, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	42 min
May 27, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	48 min
May 27, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	44 min
May 27, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	49 min
May 27, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	48 min
May 28, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	45 min
May 28, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	45 min
May 28, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	51 min
May 28, 12:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Pike	2 hr
May 28, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	46 min
May 28, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	43 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.