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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 13, 2002Boone County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2002, 12:22 PM CDT for Boone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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 13, 2002, 12:22 PM CDT (17:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2002, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Boone County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 13, 10:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 10:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 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
Aug 12, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	32 min
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, 12:30 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.