Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2001, 5:19 PM CDT for Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Apr 3, 2001, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2001, 6:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Glencoe, AR | |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Glencoe, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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
- 1171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 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 Apr 3, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001 PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES EARLY TONIGHT WILL BECOME MOSTLY CLOUDY LATER. CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE DECREASING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ON ACCOUNT OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY. DYNAMICS FOR WEDNESDAY DO NOT LOOK AS GOOD AS IN PREVIOUS RUNS...SO ONLY SLIGHT CHANCES WEDNESDAY. NEXT FRONT WILL BE COMING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...SO FORECAST WILL BE DRY BASICALLY FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO MOST OF FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL AND CONDITIONS WILL BE MUGGY WITH HIGH DEW POINTS. 32 .LIT...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 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.