Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT for Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Salem, AR | |
| May 7, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bryant, AR | |
| May 7, 6:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bryant, AR | Thunderstorm winds blew down a sales tent and a few power lines. |
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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 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
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, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 7, 5:24 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
524 PM CDT MON MAY 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0516 PM HOT SPGS AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/01 GARLAND REPORTED BY STATE
POLICE AT STATE POLICE
TROOP HEADQUARTERS.
0518 PM HOT SPGS AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/01 GARLAND REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER 1 MILE WEST OF
OAKLAWN PARK. EVENT
DURATION 5 MINUTES.Local storm report, May 7, 5:31 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
531 PM CDT MON MAY 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM NEW HOPE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/01 PIKE REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
OFFICE.Local storm report, May 7, 5:58 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
558 PM CDT MON MAY 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM HOT SPGS AR 1 INCH HAIL
05/07/01 GARLAND REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER IN SOUTHERN
PART OF HOT SPRINGS
NEAR HIGHWAY 7. MOST OF
THE HAIL WAS DIME
SIZE...BUT SOME REACHED
THE SIZE OF Q<UARTERS.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, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 35 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
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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.