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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 26, 2002Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 2:36 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 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, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 3:10 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pulaski County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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, 2:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Wrightsville, AR	Thunderstorm winds caused some roof damage at the prison in Wrightsville.

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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 10:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 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, 5 hours 56 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.

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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 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, 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, 2:50 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.