Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2001, 3:53 PM CST for Conway County, Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 67 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
- Feb 24, 2001, 3:53 PM CST (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Conway County, AR, Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Chimes, AR | |
| Feb 24, 4:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Cleveland, AR |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLZK 242154 SVRLIT ARC029-141-242300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 353 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VAN BUREN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS CONWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 346 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF RUPERT...WITH A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOVER TO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF OLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... RUPERT AROUND 400 PM CST MORRILTON AROUND 410 PM CST PLUMERVILLE AROUND 415 PM CST CLINTON AROUND 425 PM CST SHIRLEY AROUND 435 PM CST FAIRFIELD BAY AROUND 440 PM CST && A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. REMAIN CALM...BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOURF REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK. $$ 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 57 min |
| Feb 24, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Newton | 63 min |
| Feb 24, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 57 min |
| Feb 24, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike | 67 min |
| Feb 24, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring, Saline | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Grant, Saline | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 60 min |
| Feb 24, 3:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 56 min |
| Feb 24, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Perry, Yell | 64 min |
| Feb 24, 3:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 41 min |
| Feb 24, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 38 min |
| Feb 24, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | White | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 4:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard | 67 min |
| Feb 24, 4:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Prairie, White | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring, Saline | 63 min |
| Feb 24, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski | 63 min |
| Feb 24, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Stone, Van Buren | 63 min |
| Feb 24, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas, Grant | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 5:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 29 min |
| Feb 24, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jackson | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Drew | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, White | 56 min |
| Feb 24, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 56 min |
| Feb 24, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 5:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Desha | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.