Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 4:41 PM CDT for Faulkner County, White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 12, 2002, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Faulkner County, AR, White County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Rose Bud, AR | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 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 Jun 12, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 325 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 SMALL MCS CURRENTLY MOVING INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF MY FORECAST AREA. OUTFLOW FROM EARLIER MCS NOW TOUCHING OFF SCATTERED TSRA OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS. THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND SHOULD DIMINISH SOMEWHAT AFTER SUNSET. REAL ACTION BEGINS LATER TONIGHT. WINDS BEHIND FRONT WILL PICK UP SPEED AND WILL ACT TO PUSH IT TO US. MCS PROGGED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN KANSAS/NORTHERN OKLAHOMA AND MOVE SOUTHEAST ALONG/INVOF COLD FRONT...REACHING NORTHERN ARKANSAS DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. FAIRLY STRONG VERTICAL SHEAR...INSTABILITY...AND LIFTING INVOF FRONT WILL BE ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE DURING THE DAY TOMORROW. PRIMARILY A HAIL AND WIND THREAT. FEEL THIS WILL NOT BE WIDESPREAD...AND WILL NOT MENTION IN THE ZONES AT THIS TIME. FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS AROUND 12Z TIME FRAME. SHOULD BE SLOW TO MOVE THROUGH...AND WILL EXIT THE STATE AFTER 06Z FRIDAY. SOME MOISTURE WILL LINGER BEHIND THE FRONT...AND I HAVE LEFT SLIGHT CHANCE/CHANCE POPS IN FOR SOUTHERN GROUPS FOR THE MORNING HOURS. OVER ALL...I HAVE NOT MADE TOO MANY CHANGES TO THE ONGOING FORECAST PACKAGE. SHOULD BE COOLER TOMORROW DUE TO CLOUD COVER AND EXPECTED PRECIPITATION...SO HAVE GONE A LITTLE COOLER. ONCE THE FRONT CLEARS THE STATE...HIGH BUILDS IN...BUT BRIEFLY. THE HIGH SLIDES TO SOUTHEAST ON SUNDAY...AND RETURN FLOW SETS UP AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM. NEXT FRONT PROGGED TO AFFECT FORECAST AREA DURING SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING TIME FRAME. FCSTID = 57 HRO 70 83 60 81 / 50 60 0 0 LIT 73 88 66 84 / 30 60 40 0 HOT 72 87 65 84 / 40 60 30 0 PBF 73 90 69 87 / 30 40 40 20 .LZK...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 40 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.