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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 12:56 PM CDT for Clark County, Dallas 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
- Jul 2, 2002, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clark County, AR, Dallas County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 1:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dalark, 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 1523 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 Jul 2, 10:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 10:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1010 AM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002 ...NO CHANGES THIS MORNING... MORE STEAM HEAT IN STORE FOR THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW STILL SITTING OVER TX/OK AND HAS BASICALLY STALLED OUT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STILL BANGING AROUND OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWA IN TROPICAL AIRMASS. WITH REALLY NO SHORTWAVES TO KEY IN ON THIS AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED IN NATURE WITH COVERAGE INCREASING AS THE DAY WEARS ON. PRECIPITABLE WATER OFF THE SOUNDING THIS MORNING IS JUST UNDER 2 INCHES SO LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WHERE THE STORMS FIRE UP. .LZK...NONE. 56
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 44 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.