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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 30, 2002Sharp County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2002, 11:28 AM CDT for Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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: Apr 30, 2002, 11:28 AM CDT (16:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2002, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sharp County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 30, 9:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

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 Apr 30, 9:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 9:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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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
Apr 30, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	37 min
Apr 30, 6:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	21 min
Apr 30, 8:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	13 min
Apr 30, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	45 min
Apr 30, 8:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	28 min
Apr 30, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone	24 min
Apr 30, 9:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone	16 min
Apr 30, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	35 min
Apr 30, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	32 min
Apr 30, 10:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	31 min
Apr 30, 11:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	27 min
Apr 30, 11:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard	34 min
Apr 30, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	43 min
Apr 30, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	13 min
Apr 30, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	39 min
Apr 30, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	20 min
Apr 30, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	45 min
Apr 30, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Stone	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.