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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 12:49 PM CDT for Garland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 56 min. 5 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 26, 2002, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Garland County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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, 12:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Royal, AR | |
| May 26, 12:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Royal, AR | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. |
| May 26, 12:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lake Hamilton, AR | Some trees were blown down. |
| May 26, 1:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hot Spgs, AR | |
| May 26, 1:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hot Spgs, AR | Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees. |
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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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, 10:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 10:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1043 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 MOST CURRENT SFC DATA SHOWS ILL-DEFINED SFC BNDRY OVER SRN AR ATTM. DEWPOINTS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE 50S OVER NRN AR...WITH 60S COMMON IN THE CNTRL AND SRN PARTS OF THE FA. EXPECT ONGOING CONVECTION OVER WRN AR WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN FURTHER THROUGH MIDDAY. RESIDUAL SFC BNDRY/S WILL BE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN. CURRENT POP FCST FOR THIS AFTN LOOKS GOOD. WILL TWEAK TEMP AND CLOUD TRENDS AFTER 16Z OBS ARRIVE. UPDATES WILL BE OUT SHORTLY AFTER THE TOP OF THE HOUR. ..44.. .LZK...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 8:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
840 AM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0302 AM 3 SE WHITEHALL AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0800 AM BRINKLEY AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 MONROE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
44The 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, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 35 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.