Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 4:31 PM CDT for Perry County, Arkansas. It was in force for 14 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2002, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Perry County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 285 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
- 454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 25, 4:00 PM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 4:00 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 25, 10:31 AM CDT, 6 hours before
LITLSRLIT ALL
TTAA00 KLIT DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1031 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 3 W INK AR 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/24/02 POLK OBJECTS BLOWN OFF
PORCHES AND NUMEROUS
TREE LIMBS DOWN.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0715 PM ALPINE AR 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/24/02 CLARK LARGE TREE DOWN OVER
HIGHWAY 8 IN ALPINE.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jun 25, 11:19 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
1119 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM PRATTSVILLE AR .75 INCH HAIL
06/24/02 GRANT REPORTED BY
PUBLIC
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.