Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 26, 2001Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2001, 6:01 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2001, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KLZK 262303
SVRLIT

ARC119-125-262330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
601 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  WESTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 600 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FERNDALE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF
  BENTON.  THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AVILLA AROUND 625 PM CDT
  BLAND AROUND 630 PM CDT

&&

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO
RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND
GUSTY WINDS. SOME DAMAGE MAY OCCUR SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS
AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF 
QUARTERS IN SOME AREAS. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE 
STORM PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3471 9246 3489 9250 3487 9277 3465 9272

$$
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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, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	31 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001 Every 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.