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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 7, 2001Garland County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2001, 5:10 PM CDT for Garland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 min. 3 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: May 7, 2001, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Garland County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 7, 5:13 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Hot Spgs, AR
May 7, 5:16 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Hot Spgs, AR
May 7, 5:30 PM CDT	Hail 1	Hot Spgs, 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 7, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
325 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001

COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED
SHOWERS/THUNDERSHOWERS AHEAD OF FRONT WILL CONTINUE DURING THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS CENTRAL/SOUTH...WITH DRIER/COOLER AIR SPREADING INTO
AREAS FARTHER NORTH.

ON TUESDAY...FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OF ARKANSAS WITH PRECIPITATION
ENDING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE STATE BEHIND THE
FRONT...WITH DRY WEATHER IN THE FORECAST THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY.

ON FRIDAY/EARLY SATURDAY...YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE FROM
THE NORTHWEST WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSHOWERS.

TEMPERATURES THIS WEEK WILL RUN A BIT ABOVE NORMAL...WHICH IS
NOTHING NEW. LOOKING FOR 70S/80S DURING THE DAYTIME AND MOSTLY
50S/60S AT NIGHT. (46)

.LIT...NONE

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, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun	25 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, 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, 2001 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.