Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2001, 5:31 AM CDT for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 2, 2001, 5:31 AM CDT (10:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2001, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pope County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:32 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Scottsville, AR | Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs around Scottsville. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Jun 2, 3:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 330 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 2001 ETA IS MODEL OF CHOICE, HOWEVER THERE APPEARS TO BE NO SIGNIFICANT MODEL INITIALIZATION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS AND THE OTHER MODELS. SUBJECTIVE COMPARISON OF UPPER AIR DATA SUGGESTS THE ETA AND THE NGM HAVE AN OVERALL SUPERIOR HANDLE ON THE CURRENT WEATHER PATTERN. AS PER SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR THIS DAY 1...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR MOST AREAS OF ARKANSAS TODAY. WE ARE MARGINALLY UNSTABLE NOW AND COULD POSSIBLY BECOME MORE UNSTABLE BY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH COLD FRONT MOVING INTO NORTHWEST SECTIONS NOW AND THEN STALLING BEFORE REACHING THE CENTRAL SECTIONS... TEMPERATURES WILL BE TRICKY AND HARD TO PIN. .LIT...NONE. 38
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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.