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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2001, 2:33 PM CDT for Cleburne County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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 30, 2001, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cleburne County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 375 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
- 1253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 30, 11:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 11:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-310400- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED ISSUE TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 130 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER MOST OF ARKANSAS. THERE IS ALSO A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER PARTS OF EXTREME WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF STORMS SHOULD BE OVER THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES. THE MAIN THREATS OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. BRIEF...HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS AS WELL. EMERGENCY MANAGERS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS ANY SOME PARTS OF ARKANSAS. 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 36 min |
| May 30, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Van Buren | 23 min |
| May 30, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 54 min |
| May 30, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 53 min |
| May 30, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 59 min |
| May 30, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pike, Polk | 3 hr |
| May 30, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pike | 39 min |
| May 30, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 58 min |
| May 30, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.