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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 26, 2001, 9:28 PM CST for Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Nov 26, 2001, 9:28 PM CST (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2001, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Desha County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 10:05 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Mc Gehee, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 Nov 26, 9:20 PM CST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 9:20 PM CST, 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Nov 26, 6:05 PM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
ARZ003>007-013>016-022>025-031>034-038-039-042>047-053>057-062>069- 270215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 605 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001 TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM...COVERING MOST OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE EXTREMELY UNSTABLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE WATCH AREA PRECEDES A COLD FRONT THAT CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS...ALONG WITH VERTICAL WIND PROFILES SUGGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP QUICKLY...AND WILL LIKELY BECOME SUPERCELLS. THE SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
Special weather statement, Nov 26, 8:25 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 34 min |
| Nov 26, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Nov 26, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Nov 26, 6:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 24 min |
| Nov 26, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 67 min |
| Nov 26, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 27 min |
| Nov 26, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 32 min |
| Nov 26, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 38 min |
| Nov 26, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Drew | 43 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.