Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2002, 1:38 PM CDT for Logan County, Arkansas. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports 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 14, 2002, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2002, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Logan County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Corley, AR | |
| Jul 14, 1:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Corley, AR | Several large limbs were blown down. |
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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 14, 10:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 10:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1020 AM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002 WILL BE SENDING OUT AN UPDATE THIS MORNING. LATEST SURFACE OBS PUT SURFACE BOUNDARY ROUGHLY FROM KDEQ TO BETWEEN KLIT AND KPBF TO POINTS EASTWARD. BOUNDARY AND UPPER LOW WILL ALLOW A FOCUS FOR TSRA DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. HEATING FROM BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS WILL PROVIDE THE NEEDED TRIGGER...AND ISOLD CONVECTION ALREADY DEVELOPING INVOF THE FRONT. TEMPERATURES LOOK GOOD FOR NOW...GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF EXPECTED CLOUD COVER. WINDS ARE ON TRACK...MOSTLY LIGHT AND VARIABLE. ONLY MAJOR CHANGES TO FORECAST WILL BE TO BUMP POPS UP IN CENTRAL ZONES TO 40 PERCENT...AND TO REMOVE MORNING FOG WORDING. UPDATED FORECAST WILL BE SENT AROUND 1030 AM. FCSTID = 57 .LZK...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Grant | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Saline | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Yell | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 2:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Logan | 86 min |
| Jul 14, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 32 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.