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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 414, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 13, 2001Clark County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2001, 1:35 AM CDT for Clark County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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, 1:35 AM CDT (06:35 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 2001, 2:25 AM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clark County, AR

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 12, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1857 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson37 min
Oct 13, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Pike35 min
Oct 13, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery31 min
Oct 13, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPike44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001Every 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.