Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2001, 7:50 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Arkansas. It was in force for 25 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
- May 6, 2001, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Calhoun County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hampton, 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
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 May 6, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 300 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 UNSTABLE AIR WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SPITE OF THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM BEING SO FAR TO THE NORTH. STEEP LAPSE RATES AND STRONG HEATING WILL OVERCOME THE LACK OF A STRONG LOW NEARBY. SURFACE DEW POINTS QUITE HIGH ACROSS ALL OF THE STATE. SO THE FORECAST FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT WILL MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE STORMS. LOWS TONIGHT WILL NOT BE AS LOW AS THOUGHT PREVIOUSLY ON ACCOUNT OF THE HIGHER DEW POINTS. FRONT WILL NOT BE RUSHING THROUGH...SO WINDS TOMORROW WILL NOT BE STRONG BEHIND THE FRONT. EXPECT THE COLD FRONT ALREADY INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE BY 12Z MONDAY. CHANCES OF RAIN FOR THE NORTHWEST WILL BE LOWER THAN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SECTIONS. HIGHS TOMORROW IN THE 70S AND A FEW 80S. RAIN AMOUNTS TONIGHT OVER WESTERN ARKANSAS WILL BE SIGNIFICANT...IN THE ONE INCH RANGE. SHOWERS MAY LINGER OVER SOUTHEAST ZONES MONDAY NIGHT AS THE FRONT SLOWS DOWN. DRY FORECAST FOR TUESDAY. IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD...THE NEXT FRONT WILL BE CROSSING THE STATE FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ON FRIDAY...SO I MOVED UP THE THUNDERSHOWERS FROM SATURDAY TO FRIDAY. LIT TB 064/078 060/080 060 32662 HRO BB 058/073 056/076 057 32631 PBF TB 066/079 062/082 062 32663 HOT TB 064/080 058/082 058 32662 .LIT...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 6, 7:41 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
741 PM CDT SUN MAY 06 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0532 PM SOCIAL HILL AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 HOTSPRING REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0606 PM 6 E CAMDEN AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 OUACHITA REPORTED IN EAST CAMDEN
BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0610 PM LOCUST BAYOU AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CALHOUN HAIL 3 TO 4 INCHES
DEEP. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS DEPUTY.
0610 PM LOCUST BAYOU AR 80 MPH TSTM GUST
05/06/01 CALHOUN WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MPH.
REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
DEPUTY.
0617 PM HOT SPGS AR 1 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 GARLAND REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHEAST
PART OF HOT SPRINGS..
0620 PM 12 W HAMPTON AR 4.5 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CALHOUN GOLFBALL TO SOFTBALL
SIZE HAIL. REPORTED BY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0620 PM 12 W HAMPTON AR 80 MPH TSTM GUST
05/06/01 CALHOUN 75 TO 80 MPH WINDS.
REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.
0714 PM HARRELL AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CALHOUN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.
0714 PM HAMPTON AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CALHOUN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.
0728 PM 1 S HAMPTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CALHOUN HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND...LOOKED LIKE A
SNOWSTORM. REPORTED BY
Z STATE POLICE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 56 min |
| May 6, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 34 min |
| May 7, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 28 min |
| May 7, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 30 min |
| May 7, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 46 min |
| May 7, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 43 min |
| May 7, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 49 min |
| May 7, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.