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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 30, 2002Arkansas County, Monroe County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2002, 5:45 AM CST for Arkansas County, Monroe County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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 30, 2002, 5:45 AM CST (11:45 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2002, 6:20 AM CST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Monroe County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2002-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1435 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2002-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 30, 4:44 AM CST, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 4:44 AM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
444 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

PROBLEM OF THE DAY CONTINUES TO BE FRONT...THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY
RAINFALL CHANCES.

CURRENT KLZK RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING ACROSS
MUCH OF ARKANSAS. RAIN WILL CONTINUE ALL DAY ACROSS THE AREA. BEST
CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE CENTRAL AND SOUTH. WITH ABUNDANT GULF
MOISTURE AVAILABLE...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT...MAINLY CENTRAL AND SOUTH. HAVE DECIDED TO INCREASE THE
AREAL EXTENT OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH...EXTENDED IT FURTHER NORTH.

WITH COLD FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS SOME SEVERE STORMS ARE
POSSIBLE ALONG THE FRONT. COLD FRONT WILL PULL OUT OF THE AREA ON
SUNDAY. PRECIP SHOULD END ACROSS THE AREA BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. DRY
CONDITIONS ARE IN STORE FOR SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. THE
NEXT FRONT COMES THROUGH ON TUESDAY AND BRINGS THE NEXT QUICK CHANCE
OF THUNDERSTORMS. WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WILL BE DRY.

TEMPERATURES WILL BE STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING TODAY. STAYED CLOSE TO
THE FWC GUIDANCE.

.LZK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH
ZONES ARZ016-025-032>034-043>047-021-022-030-031-037>042-23-024-052
053-062-066-067-054-055-056-057-064-065-063-068-069.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 8:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas38 min
Mar 29, 8:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant29 min
Mar 29, 8:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson24 min
Mar 29, 8:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski, Saline51 min
Mar 29, 9:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe28 min
Mar 29, 9:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas26 min
Mar 29, 10:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas51 min
Mar 29, 10:17 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKArkansas3 hr
Mar 29, 11:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas28 min
Mar 30, 3:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring22 min
Mar 30, 4:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring32 min
Mar 30, 4:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson27 min
Mar 30, 5:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas40 min
Mar 30, 6:27 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark, Grant, Hot Spring, Pike3 hr
Mar 30, 7:08 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson2 hr
Mar 30, 10:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun28 min
Mar 30, 10:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley29 min
Mar 30, 10:59 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDrew31 min
Mar 30, 11:24 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2002Every 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.