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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 12, 2002Boone County, Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2002, 1:18 PM CDT for Boone County, Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 57 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 12, 2002, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2002, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Boone County, AR, Marion County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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 12, 1:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Harmon, 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.

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 12, 12:25 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 12:25 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:50 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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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
Jul 11, 8:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Izard, Sharp	2 hr
Jul 12, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	33 min
Jul 12, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Yell	34 min
Jul 12, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Yell	33 min
Jul 12, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	45 min
Jul 12, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	40 min
Jul 12, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	49 min
Jul 12, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	38 min
Jul 12, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	37 min
Jul 12, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.