Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2001, 8:35 PM CDT for Woodruff County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 3, 2001, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Morton, 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 2598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
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, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 5 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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
645 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM NEWPORT AR .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0640 PM HICKORY GROVE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0643 PM NEWPORT AR .88 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Apr 3, 6:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
654 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0650 PM NEWPORT AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
704 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM CAMPBELL STATION AR 2 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
710 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0702 PM NEWPORT AR 2.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
719 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM 4 SE NEWPORT AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED AT HWYS 14 AND
17 JUNCTION. REPORTED
BY STORM SPO TTER.
0714 PM AMAGON AR 2 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:40 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
740 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....E
0735 PM BEEDEVILLE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jackson | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 47 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.