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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 23, 2001Garland County, Perry County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 23, 2001, 11:20 PM CST for Garland County, Perry County, Arkansas. It was in force for 60 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 23, 2001, 11:20 PM CST (05:20 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 12:20 AM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Garland County, AR, Perry County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 24, 12:00 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Hot Spgs, AR	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
Nov 24, 12:05 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Bismarck, AR	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
Nov 24, 12:10 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Perryville, AR	Thunderstorm winds downed some large trees.

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
Nov 23, 11:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

982 
WUUS54 KLZK 240522
SVRLIT
ARC019-051-059-105-240620-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1120 PM CST FRI NOV 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  GARLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  HOT SPRING COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
  CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 1220 AM CST

* AT 1118 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 2 MILES SOUTH OF DANVILLE TO     
  MURFREESBORO...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MOUNTAIN PINE AROUND 1140 PM CST
  ADONA AND LAKE HAMILTON AROUND 1145 PM CST

&&

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. REMAIN CALM...BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3509 9269 3485 9277 3488 9305 3479 9308
          3464 9299 3464 9287 3407 9305 3404 9338
          3423 9347 3435 9339 3470 9338 3479 9328
          3488 9328 3508 9304

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 23, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	30 min
Nov 23, 7:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson	40 min
Nov 23, 8:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Newton	57 min
Nov 23, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	34 min
Nov 23, 8:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	53 min
Nov 23, 9:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Newton	49 min
Nov 23, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson	38 min
Nov 23, 9:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	63 min
Nov 23, 9:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson, Pope	40 min
Nov 23, 10:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan	63 min
Nov 23, 10:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Newton	50 min
Nov 23, 10:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Searcy	49 min
Nov 23, 10:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Marion	26 min
Nov 23, 10:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	62 min
Nov 23, 10:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	62 min
Nov 23, 10:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pope	59 min
Nov 23, 11:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Searcy	30 min
Nov 23, 11:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	60 min
Nov 23, 11:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Marion	37 min
Nov 23, 11:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter	42 min
Nov 23, 11:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	44 min
Nov 24, 12:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	55 min
Nov 24, 12:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	55 min
Nov 24, 12:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	24 min
Nov 24, 12:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Van Buren	46 min
Nov 24, 1:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.