Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2002, 3:28 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 14, 2002, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 263 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, 3:00 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:00 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 300 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002 THERE REALLY ARENT MUCH CHANGES TO TALK ABOUT IN THE SHORT TERM...OR REALLY THE EXTENDED FOR THAT MATTER. SURFACE FRONT NOW FROM BETWEEN KDEQ-KTXK TO AROUND KPBF PER LATEST SURFACE OBS...AND IT REALLY HASNT MOVED MUCH SINCE THIS MORNING. SCATTERED CONVECTION FIRED UP THIS AFTERNOON CLOSE TO THE FRONT...MAINLY OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS. WILL HAVE 50 PERCENT POPS TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH...AND 40 PERCENT POPS NORTHERN ZONES WHERE THINGS ARE SLIGHTLY MORE STABLE. EXPECT PATCHY FOG TO FORM ONCE AGAIN TONIGHT DUE TO WET GROUND AND LIGHT WINDS. PRECIPITABLE WATER IS NEAR TWO INCHES...AND LOW AND MID LEVEL FLOW IS STILL RELATIVELY WEAK. STORMS THIS EVENING MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...BUT AM NOT EXPECTING MUCH OF ANYTHING ELSE. HAVE USED A BLEND OF FWC/MAV/MET TEMPS. TEMPERATURES WILL STILL BE DIFFICULT DUE TO VARIABLE CLOUDINESS. RAIN CHANCES CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. GULF HIGH PRESSURE PUSHES ONSHORE ON COASTAL LOUISIANA/MISSISSIPPI ON TUESDAY. THIS WILL PUSH UPPER LOW OFF TO THE NORTHWEST. FAIRLY DECENT UPPER TROF FORMS...AND UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS GET GOING PRETTY GOOD OUT AHEAD OF IT. AS HIGH MOVES ALONG THE COAST...IT SHOULD ACT TO PUSH UPPER SYSTEM OFF TO THE EAST AND DIMINISH RAIN CHANCES WEDNESDAY EVENING. SHOULD SEE SOME DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY...AS MOISTURE WILL STILL BE ABUNDANT...AND UPPER SUPPORT WILL BE PRESENT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE IN BRIEFLY. WILL LEAVE POPS OUT FOR FRIDAY...AS THERE DOESNT APPEAR TO BE MUCH UPWARD MOTION. NORTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL SET UP DUE TO HIGH OVER WEST...AND WILL BRING THE NEXT SYSTEM. SHOULD SEE TSRA DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. UPPER HIGH WILL EXERT ITS INFLUENCE ON SUNDAY...AND I WILL LEAVE A DRY FORECAST FOR THEN. ONLY MADE MINOR TWEAKS TO EXTENDED TEMPERATURES. FCSTID = 57 HRO 68 86 68 90 / 40 40 30 40 LIT 70 89 72 91 / 50 40 30 40 HOT 70 89 72 91 / 50 40 30 40 PBF 71 90 73 92 / 50 40 30 40 .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, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 37 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2002Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.