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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 417, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2001, 4:01 PM CDT for Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 19 min. 1 report 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, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 4:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jackson County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Grubbs, 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 753 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 300 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 LEFT OVER WEATHER WILL BE THE FIRST CONCERN. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE OVER BY 00Z THU...BUT I WILL NEED TO HAVE SOME MENTION OF IT EARLY. COOLING DOES NOT SHOW UP AS STRONG AS GUIDANCE HAD WITH EARLIER PACKAGES. STRONG GRADIENT WILL KEEP THE AIR MIXED SO IT WILL COUNTERACT A BIT THE COLD ADVECTION. WINDY TONIGHT WITH CAUTION ADVISED ON LAKES FOR THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA. NORTHWEST ZONES WILL BE CLEAR RIGHT OFF THE BAT WITH THE REMAINING ZONES CLEARING DURING THE NIGHT. DRY AIR WILL KEEP SUNNY/CLEAR SKIES FROM THURSDAY ON INTO THE EXTENDED. AVN SURFACE WINDS SHOW GRADIENT STAYING UP MOST OF THE TIME DURING THE SHORT RANGE FORECAST...SO TOOK OUT THE MENTION OF FREEZE OR FROST SINCE TEMPS WILL STAY UP ALONG WITH THE WINDS. IN THE EXTENDED...KEPT THE CHANCE OF FROST FOR SUNDAY ACROSS THE NORTH ONLY. 32 .LIT...NONE.
In the hours before
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ARZ007-016-024-025-032>034-242130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 350 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 798 WHICH WAS ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...FAULKNER...CLEBURNE...AND SHARP... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 798 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS... ...INDEPENDENCE...JACKSON...WHITE...AND WOODRUFF... AT 350 PM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...EXTENDED FROM NEAR TUCKERMAN TO SEARCY TO NEAR CABOT. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 22
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 28 min |
| Oct 24, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.