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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2002, 5:49 PM CDT for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2002, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pope County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Tilly, AR | |
| Apr 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Tilly, AR |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 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 Apr 16, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CDT TUE APR 16 2002 A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST FRIDAY. ABNORMALLY WARM CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED UNTIL THEN. NEAR NORMAL CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY PREVAIL AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. THE CHANCES OF RAIN WILL INCREASE AS THE FRONT NEARS. FCSTID = 38 HRO 60 86 64 86 / 30 10 0 10 LIT 64 87 65 88 / 20 10 0 10 HOT 64 88 65 88 / 30 10 0 10 PBF 67 88 66 89 / 20 10 0 10 .LZK... AR...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 20 min |
| Apr 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pope | 21 min |
| Apr 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pope | 15 min |
| Apr 16, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.