Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 338, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 19, 2002, 4:49 AM CST for Desha County, Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 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
- Dec 19, 2002, 4:49 AM CST (10:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2002, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:48 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 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 Dec 19, 4:00 AM CST, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 4:00 AM CST, 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 18, 1:20 PM CST, 15 hours 29 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-191100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 120 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MOST OF WEST-CENTRAL...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ELSEWHERE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE OVERALL SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS...AND WILL BE MAXIMIZED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO APPROACH ARKANSAS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THIS WILL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE LINE...AND ANY SUCH STORMS COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES AS WELL AS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE QUICKLY NORTHEAST ACROSS EASTERN ARKANSAS DURING THE EVENING AND SHOULD BE OUT OF THE STATE AROUND MIDNIGHT OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER. A CHANCE OF RAIN AND WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY IN MOST OF ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...INCLUDING WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS...VISIT THE LITTLE ROCK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 44
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 19, 12:20 AM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
1220 AM CST THU DEC 19 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0935 AM HARRISON AR .75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 BOONE REPORTED BY MEDIA
0220 PM 3 S PEEL AR .75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 MARION REPORTED BY VOLUNTEER FIRE
DEPT
0335 PM 1 N AMITY AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 CLARK REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
0335 PM HAMLET AR TORNADO
12/18/02 FAULKNER *** 1 DEAD, 13 INJ ***
SEVERAL PERMANENT HOMES
AND MOBILES HOMES
DESTROYED. TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN. REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
0341 PM POINT CEDAR AR TORNADO
12/18/02 HOT SPRING SOME DAMAGE REPORTED. NO
SPECIFICS GIVEN. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0415 PM MAYFLOWER AR .88 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 FAULKNER REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER.
0430 PM HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE AR FLASH FLOODS
12/18/02 GARLAND SCHOOL BUS WASHED OFF THE
ROAD NEAR LITTLE BLAKELY
CREEK. NO INJURIES.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
0432 PM PARON AR TORNADO
12/18/02 SALINE NO FURTHER DETAILS GIVEN.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0438 PM MAUMELLE AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 PULASKI REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0445 PM MAUMELLE AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 PULASKI REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER
0450 PM MACON AR 1.50 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 PULASKI REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER
0454 PM CENTER HILL AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 WHITE REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
0455 PM GIBSON AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 PULASKI REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
0458 PM OWENSVILLE AR TORNADO
12/18/02 SALINE NO FURTHER DETAILS GIVEN.
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER
0500 PM CABOT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 LONOKE REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
0500 PM 7 N MACON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 PULASKI REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0510 PM CABOT AR .75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 LONOKE REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER
0510 PM CABOT AR 1.25 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 LONOKE REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
0533 PM SEARCY AR .75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 WHITE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0542 PM ALPINE AR .88 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 CLARK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0545 PM CONWAY AR .75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 FAULKNER REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
0550 PM 4 E HAZEN AR WIND DAMAGE
12/18/02 PRAIRIE POWER LINES DOWN. REPORTED
BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR
0610 PM 5 W LITTLE ROCK AR .88 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 PULASKI REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
0630 PM KIRKLAND AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 OUACHITA REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
0633 PM JACKSONVILLE AR .88 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 PULASKI REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
0635 PM JACKSONVILLE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 PULASKI REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
0640 PM CABOT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 LONOKE REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER
0645 PM WARD AR .75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 LONOKE REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0650 PM CABOT AR .75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 LONOKE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0830 PM LODGES CORNERS AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02 ARKANSAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
1100 PM 4 NE GARRETT BRIDGE AR WIND DAMAGE
12/18/02 LINCOLN *** 2 INJ ***
TRAILER BLOWN OVER.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1115 PM PENDLETON AR WIND DAMAGE
12/18/02 DESHA A COUPLE OF TRAILERS BLOWN
OFF OF THEIR FOUNDATIONS.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
46The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 29 min |
| Dec 18, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 46 min |
| Dec 18, 6:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 43 min |
| Dec 18, 6:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 118 min |
| Dec 18, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 37 min |
| Dec 18, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie, White | 30 min |
| Dec 18, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 29 min |
| Dec 18, 6:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 31 min |
| Dec 18, 7:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Jefferson | 43 min |
| Dec 18, 7:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie, White, Woodruff | 43 min |
| Dec 18, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 44 min |
| Dec 18, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Dec 18, 7:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 41 min |
| Dec 18, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 40 min |
| Dec 18, 8:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Prairie | 117 min |
| Dec 18, 8:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 32 min |
| Dec 18, 8:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 41 min |
| Dec 18, 8:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 30 min |
| Dec 18, 8:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe | 42 min |
| Dec 18, 9:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 41 min |
| Dec 18, 9:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 33 min |
| Dec 18, 9:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Dec 18, 9:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland | 43 min |
| Dec 18, 9:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 43 min |
| Dec 18, 10:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Dec 18, 10:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Desha, Lincoln | 43 min |
| Dec 18, 10:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 32 min |
| Dec 18, 11:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Bradley | 2 hr |
| Dec 18, 11:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 29 min |
| Dec 18, 11:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 11:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 19, 2:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 29 min |
| Dec 19, 3:46 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Desha, Drew | 4 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.