Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2001, 10:28 PM CDT for Little River County, Arkansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2001, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Little River County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 10:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Winthrop, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KSHV 070328
SVRSHV
ARC081-070430-
/NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0075.070328-070430/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1028 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LITTLE RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 1028 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FOREMAN
...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
7 MILES SOUTH OF WINTHROP AT 1035 PM CDT
OVER WILTON...5 MILES NORTH OF ASHDOWN AT 1050 PM CDT
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES.z
REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LITTLE RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 1130 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3371 9448 3359 9447 3359 9394 3374 9408
3389 9445What 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 6, 9:56 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 9:56 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 955 PM CDT PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO INCLUDE MENTION OF POSSIBLE SEVERE. NO OTHER CHANGES MADE. 06 .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 6, 6:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
649 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SUTTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0635 PM 5 S PRESCOTT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 ~NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTLocal storm report, May 6, 7:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
735 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SUTTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0635 PM 5 S PRESCOTT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0725 PM LANEBURG AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTLocal storm report, May 6, 9:43 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
943 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SUTTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0635 PM 5 S PRESCOTT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0725 PM LANEBURG AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0920 PM RED HILL TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CASS REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTERS
0933 PM RED HILL TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CASS REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nevada | 45 min |
| May 6, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 62 min |
| May 6, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 58 min |
| May 6, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 53 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.