Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2001, 11:57 PM CDT for Grant County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 12, 2001, 11:57 PM CDT (04:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Grant County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 12:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Sheridan, AR | Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage to several buildings. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
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 Jul 12, 3:10 PM CDT, 8 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 3:10 PM CDT, 8 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 310 PM CDT THU JUL 12 2001 FORECAST CONCERNS: HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. INTERSECTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS TRIGGERED THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH BECAME SEVERE OVER LINCOLN AND LATER OVER DREW/DESHA COUNTIES. THE LATEST MODEL RUNS ARE IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT. THE MODEL OF CHOICE IS AVN. TEMPERATURES WILL VARY WIDELY BETWEEN THE RAIN-COOLED AREAS AND THOSE OTHER AREAS. THE HIGH PRESSURE WHICH MOVED WEST TO ALLOW THIS SYSTEM TO DROP DOWN UPON US WILL BE MOVING BACK INTO ARKANSAS BY MONDAY. TAHIS WILL BRING ABOUT A RETURN TO HIGH HEAT AND HIGH HUMIDITY. .LIT...NONE. 38
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski | 57 min |
| Jul 12, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 57 min |
| Jul 12, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 25 min |
| Jul 12, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 50 min |
| Jul 12, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 57 min |
| Jul 12, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 55 min |
| Jul 12, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 53 min |
| Jul 12, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke | 50 min |
| Jul 12, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 51 min |
| Jul 13, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 18 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.