Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2002, 12:49 AM CST for Pope County, Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2002, 12:49 AM CST (06:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2002, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pope County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:05 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Dardanelle, AR | |
| Mar 9, 1:10 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Russellville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 414 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KLZK 090649
SVRLIT
ARC115-149-090730-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1248 AM CST SAT MAR 9 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
POPE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
YELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
* UNTIL 130 AM CST
* AT 1245 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DARDANELLE...OR ABOUT 8
MILES NORTHEAST OF DANVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
DARDANELLE AROUND 1255 AM CST
RUSSELLVILLE AROUND 100 AM CST
POTTSVILLE AROUND 105 AM CST
ATKINS AROUND 115 AM CST
&&
THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE HAIL TO THE
SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. SOME
DAMAGE MAY OCCUR SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.
LAT...LON 3550 9285 3524 9285 3505 9327 3519 9338
3521 9328 3526 9327
$$
54The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 10:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 10:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 10:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 28 min |
| Mar 8, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 11:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 114 min |
| Mar 9, 12:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 41 min |
| Mar 9, 1:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 23 min |
| Mar 9, 2:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Stone | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 2:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard | 32 min |
| Mar 9, 2:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Scott | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 3:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 35 min |
| Mar 9, 3:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion, Pope, Searcy | 48 min |
| Mar 9, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 4:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 55 min |
| Mar 9, 4:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 4:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Stone | 52 min |
| Mar 9, 4:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 49 min |
| Mar 9, 5:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Pulaski, White | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 5:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 55 min |
| Mar 9, 5:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 21 min |
| Mar 9, 5:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, Prairie, Woodruff | 48 min |
| Mar 9, 6:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Monroe | 45 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.