Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Aug 13, 2002, 12:51 AM CDT (05:51 UTC)

Expired

Aug 13, 2002, 1:50 AM CDT

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baxter County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Izard County, AR

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

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727 
WUUS54 KLZK 130551
SVRLIT
ARC005-049-065-130650-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1250 AM CDT TUE AUG 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BAXTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  IZARD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 150 AM CDT

* AT 1243 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SALESVILLE...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES EAST OF MOUNTAIN HOME...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  VIOLA AROUND 110 AM CDT
  SALEM AROUND 125 AM CDT

&&

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND
GUSTY WINDS. SOME DAMAGE MAY OCCUR SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS
AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

LAT...LON 3620 9245 3611 9218 3636 9153 3650 9165
          3649 9213

$$

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 12, 2:26 PM CDT, 10 hours 25 minutes earlier.

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.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.