Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2002, 9:49 PM CST for 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
- Mar 15, 2002, 9:49 PM CST (03:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2002, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Drew County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1056 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
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 Mar 15, 9:10 PM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 9:10 PM CST, 39 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:37 PM CST, 5 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
437 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0305 PM LEAD HILL AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/15/02 BOONE HAIL COVERED GROUND.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0415 PM ROYAL AR .88 INCH HAIL
03/15/02 GARLAND REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0415 PM ROYAL AR 70 MPH TSTM GUST
03/15/02 GARLAND REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:57 PM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
457 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0250 PM WESTERN GROVE AR 1.5 INCH HAIL
03/15/02 NEWTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0440 PM FOUNTAIN LAKE AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/15/02 GARLAND REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0445 PM 4 NE FOUNTAIN LAKE AR WIND DAMAGE
03/15/02 GARLAND POWER OUTAGES AND LARGE
TREE LIMBS DOWNSpecial weather statement, Mar 15, 5:47 PM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
ARZ003>005-012-013-160020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 547 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 27...SCHEDULED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM... HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR BOONE...BAXTER... MARION...NEWTON AND SEARCY COUNTIES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. 56
Local storm report, Mar 15, 5:51 PM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
551 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM BLAND AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/15/02 SALINE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0535 PM LITTLE ROCK AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/15/02 PULASKI AT WALTON HEIGHTS.
REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0545 PM NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR .75 INCH HAIL
03/15/02 PULASKI NEAR I-430 AND CRYSTAL
HILL ROAD. REPORTED BY
HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
28Special weather statement, Mar 15, 5:52 PM CST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
ARZ006-007-014>016-023>025-031>034-039-160100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 552 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EXTENDED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THIS WATCH HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM. THE NEW WATCH IN IN EFFECT FOR CLEBURNE...FULTON...INDEPENDENCE... IZARD...SHARP...STONE...VAN BUREN...CONWAY...FAULKNER... JACKSON...PERRY...WHITE AND WOODRUFF COUNTIES UNTIL 10 PM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE AREA AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 10 PM IN THESE AREA. 56
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.