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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2002, 4:34 PM CDT for Cleveland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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 19, 2002, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2002, 5:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cleveland County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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 19, 4:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Rison, AR | A large tree was blown down. |
| Jul 19, 4:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Rison, 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 1528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 19, 3:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 327 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002 MAIN CONCERN TONIGHT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE RAIN FOR NORTHEAST PARTS OF THE CWFA. GENERALLY LIKE THE AVN THE BEST OF THE MODELS. THE UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. BEFORE IT GETS TOO FAR AWAY...SEVERAL SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHEAST SECTION. THIS IS GOING TO BRING MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA WHERE IT HAS BEEN RAINING ALL DAY TODAY. LOOKING AT THE VAD WIND PROFILE WINDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT ARE ONLY AROUND 15KTS. THE GROUND IS SATURATED SO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF THE NORTHEAST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CONCENTRATED IN THE NORTHEAST AGAIN TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY WITH HIGH PRESSURE ALONG THE GULF COAST. AS THE LOW MOVES OFF TO THE EAST AND HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER ARKANSAS...SUNDAY AND MONDAY WILL BE DRY. THE NEXT FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH ON TUESDAY. THIS WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA FOR THE MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SIMILAR THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WITH LOWS IN THE 70S AND HIGHS IN THE 80S AND 90S. .LZK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTHEAST TONIGHT...ZONES ARZ005>007-014>016-024-025-033-034 51
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 34 min |
| Jul 19, 7:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 8:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jul 19, 5:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 106 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.