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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 389, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 9, 2001Faulkner County, Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2001, 3:59 AM CDT for Faulkner County, Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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: Sep 9, 2001, 3:59 AM CDT (08:59 UTC)
Expired: Sep 9, 2001, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Faulkner County, AR, Pulaski County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.6

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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 Sep 9, 3:45 AM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 3:45 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 8, 10:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1040 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001

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

0645 PM    OARK                      AR   WIND DAMAGE
09/08/01   JOHNSON                        TREES DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0815 PM    CHERRY HILL               AR   WIND DAMAGE
09/08/01   POLK                           TREES DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0830 PM    GAMALIEL                  AR   WIND DAMAGE
09/08/01   BAXTER                         TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 101.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

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Local storm report, Sep 9, 3:16 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

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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
Sep 8, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	53 min
Sep 8, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	43 min
Sep 8, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	49 min
Sep 8, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	40 min
Sep 8, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	45 min
Sep 8, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	54 min
Sep 8, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion, Searcy	57 min
Sep 8, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	45 min
Sep 8, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	48 min
Sep 8, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk	52 min
Sep 8, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	36 min
Sep 8, 9:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Newton	114 min
Sep 8, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	32 min
Sep 8, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	28 min
Sep 8, 10:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk	115 min
Sep 9, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	41 min
Sep 9, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	41 min
Sep 9, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring	51 min
Sep 9, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.