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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 26, 2001Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2001, 4:59 PM CDT for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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: Jul 26, 2001, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Faulkner County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 26, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
315 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001

SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY
OVER NORTH/CENTRAL ARKANSAS. LOOKS LIKE MORE RAIN COMING IN THE NEXT
FEW DAYS.

HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL REMAIN OVER REGION...BUT IT HAS WEAKENED
SLOWLY THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. THIS HAS ALLOWED A COLD FRONT TO
SLIDE INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS FROM MISSOURI. MEANWHILE...TROPICAL
MOISTURE WAS BUILDING TO THE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST...AND WILL HELP MOISTEN
ATMOSPHERE A BIT FURTHER.

WITH THE FRONT IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND WITH MOISTURE IN
PLACE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST
THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WITH MORE CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION...
TEMPERATURES WILL NOT BE QUITE AS HOT AS IN PREVIOUS DAYS.

BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...FRONT WILL HAVE MOVED BACK TO THE NORTH. IT
APPEARS THAT THE HIGH WILL STRENGTHEN AGAIN...WITH THE HEAT
RETURNING. (46)

.LIT...NONE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 26, 4:25 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
425 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0305 PM    5 W BLACK SPGS            AR   WIND DAMAGE
07/26/01   MONTGOMERY                     TREES DOWN ALONG OR
                                          NEAR HIGHWAY 8. POWER
                                          ALSO OUT IN THE AREA.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

46

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	26 min
Jul 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	35 min
Jul 26, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	28 min
Jul 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	30 min
Jul 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	46 min
Jul 26, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	41 min
Jul 26, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	39 min
Jul 26, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.