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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 415, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2001, 2:32 PM CDT for Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 min. 4 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Fulton County, AR, Sharp County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mammoth Spg, AR | |
| Oct 24, 2:43 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hardy, AR | |
| Oct 24, 2:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Cherokee Vlg, AR | |
| Oct 24, 2:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Cave City, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 744 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 520 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 24, 12:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 12:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes 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 24, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 32 min |
| Oct 24, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 19 min |
| Oct 24, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 22 min |
| Oct 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 32 min |
| Oct 24, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 41 min |
| Oct 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 21 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.