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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 7:55 AM CDT for Monroe County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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 26, 2002, 7:55 AM CDT (12:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:59 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 26, 8:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Brinkley, 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 2:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 258 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDS FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS WHILE A SURFACE BASED TROUGH NEARLY PARALLEL TO COLD FRONT STRETCHES ACROSS SOUTHERN SECTIONS. THESE TWO BOUNDARIES CONTINUE TO FOCUS DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY AND SUBSIDE TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT CAN BE EXPECTED TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT. FCSTID = 38 HRO 79 61 80 61 / 20 10 20 20 LIT 84 63 86 65 / 30 10 20 20 HOT 84 63 86 65 / 30 10 20 20 PBF 85 65 87 67 / 30 10 20 20 .LZK... AR...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 37 min |
| May 26, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 56 min |
| May 26, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 51 min |
| May 26, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 47 min |
| May 26, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 35 min |
| May 26, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 34 min |
| May 26, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 25 min |
| May 26, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 41 min |
| May 26, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 23 min |
| May 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 22 min |
| May 26, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 35 min |
| May 26, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Drew | 38 min |
| May 26, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 39 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.