Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2001, 6:30 PM CST for Calhoun County, Ouachita County, Arkansas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Mar 31, 2001, 6:30 PM CST (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2001, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, AR, Ouachita County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:40 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Bearden, AR | |
| Mar 31, 7:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Thornton, 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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 31, 3:40 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 3:40 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 340 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001 FORECAST CONCERNS: TEMPERATURES AND RAIN CHANCES LATEST SFC DATA SHOWS COLD FRONT RUNNING FROM N-CNTRL AR BACK INTO NERN TX. SCATTERED CONVECTION FIRED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT EARLIER THIS AFTN AND CONTINUES OVER THE ERN HALF OF AR. MODELS ARE FAIRLY SIMILAR WITH OVERALL FORECAST THRU THE PERIOD. UPPER TROF PASSING TO THE NORTH OF AR WILL CONTINUE TO SHIFT EWD OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THIS WILL ALLOW UPPER RIDGE TO BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL U.S OVER TIME AS A TROF FORMS ALONG THE WEST COAST IN THE EXTENDED PD. FOR TONIGHT...COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO SHIFT EWD THRU THE REST OF THE FA. WILL CARRY LINGERING POPS THIS EVENING FOR MY ERN ZONES. COLDER AND DRIER AIR WILL FILTER IN OVERNIGHT AS CLOUDS DECREASE. WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATER TONIGHT AS HIGH CENTER BUILDS IN FROM THE PLAINS. LOOKS LIKE SPEEDS WILL STAY BELOW ADVY CRITERIA MOST LOCATIONS THIS EVENING. EXPECT A QUIET DAY ON SUNDAY AS SURFACE HIGH QUICKLY SLIDES ACROSS THE FA. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY BECOME MORE SLY LATER IN THE DAY. WEAK UPPER SYSTEM DROPPING SEWD IN THE UPPER FLOW WILL BRING INCREASING HIGH CLOUDS TO THE REGION SUNDAY AFTN. STALLED FRONT TO THE SOUTH OF AR WILL BEGIN TO LIFT BACK NWD INTO THE FA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. MODELS STILL SHOWING INCREASING WAA AND ISENTROPIC LIFT SETTING UP OVER CNTRL AND SRN AR LATER SUNDAY NIGHT AND SHIFTING NWD ON MONDAY. WILL CONTINUE TREND OF PREVIOUS FORECAST AND CARRY SOME SMALL POPS OVER SRN HALF OF THE FA LATER SUNDAY NIGHT AND EVERYWHERE MONDAY. USED A BLEND OF THE NGM AND AVN MOS TEMPS FOR ALL PERIODS. IN THE EXTENDED...RATHER ACTIVE PATTERN SETTING UP FOR THE FA. WEAK FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA ON TUESDAY. GOOD WARMUP NOTED ON WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER FRONT WILL MOVE SEWD AND STALL NEAR THE AR/MO BORDER THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THE FRONT WILL EVENTUALLY WORK FURTHER SEWD ON SATURDAY. ..44.. .LIT...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 31, 2:49 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
249 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1225 PM PARON AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 SALINE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0100 PM BRYANT AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 SALINE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0140 PM 10 NW HEBER SPGS AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 CLEBURNE HAIL REPORTED IN THE
TOWN OF GREERS FERRY.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0155 PM 3 SW HEBER SPGS AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 CLEBURNE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0156 PM REDFIELD AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY LAW
% ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0246 PM BALD KNOB AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 WHITE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Mar 31, 3:05 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
305 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM SEARCY AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 WHITE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0300 PM JUDSONIA AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 WHITE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Mar 31, 4:04 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
404 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0220 PM LETONA AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 WHITE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0317 PM AUGUSTA AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 WOODRUFF REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0325 PM PATTERSON AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 WOODRUFF REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Mar 31, 5:21 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
521 PM CST SAT MAR 31 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 PM SARDIS AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 SALINE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0355 PM ROSE BUD AR 1 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 WHITE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0435 PM BRINKLEY AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 MONROE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0450 PM HICKORY PLAINS AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/01 PRAIRIE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 35 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.