Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 413, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2001, 1:01 AM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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 13, 2001, 1:01 AM CDT (06:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pike County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 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
- 1857 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 50 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.