Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2002, 8:28 PM CDT for Clark 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
- Aug 12, 2002, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clark County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Aug 12, 2:26 PM CDT, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 2:26 PM CDT, 6 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 226 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 BY EARLY TONIGHT EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD FROM LOUISIANA INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. MEANWHILE A COLD FRONT WILL BE APPROACHING FROM SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. THIS SHOULD TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHERN SECTIONS LATER TONIGHT. LOWS TONIGHT WILL LIKELY BE IN THE UPPER 60S ACROSS ACROSS THE NORTH AND RANGE TOWARDS THE MID 70S IN THE SOUTH. THE CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL INCREASE TOMORROW AS THE FRONT GETS CLOSER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY BY TUESDAY NIGHT. THE COLD FRONT IS LIKELY TO EXTEND FROM NEAR MOUNTAIN HOME TO MENA BY EARLY TUESDAY NIGHT. FCSTID = 38 HRO 69 84 67 83 / 50 50 60 40 LIT 71 88 70 86 / 50 50 60 40 HOT 73 88 72 85 / 50 50 60 40 PBF 73 89 72 88 / 50 50 60 40 .LZK... AR...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard | 59 min |
| Aug 13, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 58 min |
| Aug 13, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 59 min |
| Aug 13, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 4:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland | 91 min |
| Aug 13, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Saline | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.