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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 400, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2001, 6:28 PM CDT for Stone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 62 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
- Oct 10, 2001, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stone County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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
- 1190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 490 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 12.8
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 Oct 10, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 330 PM CDT WED OCT 10 2001 THE COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE SLOWLY TOWARDS ARKANSAS. AS OF 18Z IT EXTENDED FROM NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI TO SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS ACROSS CENTRAL OKALHOMA AND INTO THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS COLD FRONT. THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY INTO ARKANSAS TONIGHT AND A LOW WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT...AND THIS WILL TEND TO SLOW IT DOWN EVEN MORE. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS OR THUNDERSHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER MOST SECTIONS THURSDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF LINGERING SHOWERS INTO THURSDAY NIGHT...MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON RAIN-COOLED AREAS AND WILL NOT BE EASY TO PINPOINT SO WILL NOT STRAY TOO FAR FROM GUIDANCE. .LIT...NONE. 38
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 10, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 59 min |
| Oct 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 64 min |
| Oct 10, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 56 min |
| Oct 10, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 57 min |
| Oct 10, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 57 min |
| Oct 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Searcy, Van Buren | 55 min |
| Oct 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 55 min |
| Oct 10, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 57 min |
| Oct 10, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 42 min |
| Oct 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 38 min |
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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.