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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 4, 2001Desha County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT for Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 20 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
Jun 4, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2001, 3:50 PM CDT
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Desha County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2001-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1707 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2001-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -110 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1707 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley33 min
Jun 4, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Saline39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.