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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 7, 2001Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2001, 6:50 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2001, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Pulaski County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 287 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, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 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, 1 hour 26 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, 1 hour 19 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, 52 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.

Local storm report, May 7, 6:41 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

ARC019-080030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
641 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 636 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER OKOLONA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

&&

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GURDON AROUND 710 PM CDT

THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM IS DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. THE HAIL
MAY CAUSE SOME VEHICLE OR ROOF DAMAGE. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS CAN
ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND
GUSTY WINDS. SOME DAMAGE MAY OCCUR SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS
AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3408 9336 3396 9340 3381 9296 3397 9295

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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, 6:00 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.