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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 18, 2002Baxter County, Boone County, Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2002, 3:06 PM CDT for Baxter County, Boone County, Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 min. 4 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 18, 2002, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Marion County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 18, 3:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Clarkridge, AR	Some large tree limbs were blown down.
Jul 18, 3:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Lead Hill, AR	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph and knocked down some large tree limbs in the Diamond City area.
Jul 18, 3:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Oakland, AR	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees.
Jul 18, 4:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Whiteville, AR	A large tree was 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.

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 18, 11:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 11:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 4 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 18, 10:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Johnson, Pope, Van Buren	3 hr
Jul 18, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Stone	62 min
Jul 18, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	38 min
Jul 18, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	57 min
Jul 18, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	48 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.