Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 362, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2001, 2:35 PM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 26, 2001, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2001, 3:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pike County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Billstown, AR | |
| Aug 26, 2:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Billstown, AR |
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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 26, 3:15 AM CDT, 11 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 3:15 AM CDT, 11 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 315 AM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001 TODAY/S FORECAST CONTINUES MY THINKING FROM YESTERDAY. THE FRONT IS SLOW. THUS TIMING WILL BE DIFFICULT...AFFECTING TEMPS AND RAINFALL. HIGHS TODAY WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 80S IN THE NORTH TO THE MID 90S IN THE SOUTH. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 60S BEHIND THE FRONT AND IN THE 70S AHEAD OF IT. HIGHS ON MONDAY TO RANGE FROM THE UPPER 80S TO THE LOWER HALF OF THE 90S. WIND SHIFTS WILL BE NEGLIGIBLE AS FAR AS SPEEDS GO BEHIND THE FRONT. DRY AIR WILL BE ADVECTED INTO THE STATE FOR A BRIEF PERIOD ON TUESDAY. THEN SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL TAKE OVER ONCE MORE FROM WEDNESDAY ON. 32 .LIT...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.