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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 3, 2003Monroe County, Prairie County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2003, 5:43 AM CDT for Monroe County, Prairie County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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: May 3, 2003, 5:43 AM CDT (10:43 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2003, 6:10 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Monroe County, AR, Prairie County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:42 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1060 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.5

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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 May 3, 4:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 4:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 5:00 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-041000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT SAT MAY 3 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FRONT WAS NEARLY STATIONARY NEAR THE ARKANSAS AND LOUISIANA BORDER
THIS MORNING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF THE FRONT
WILL DISSIPATE DURING THE MORNING HOURS...WITH A MOSTLY DRY DAY
AHEAD.

THE FRONT WILL BEGIN TO MOVE NORTHWARD TONIGHT. A SYSTEM ALOFT FROM
THE PLAINS WILL INTERACT WITH THE FRONT...WITH THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING
MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS. IT APPEARS THAT LARGE
HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

ON SUNDAY...THE FRONT MOVING NORTHWARD THROUGH ARKANSAS WILL
EXIT THE STATE WITH THUNDERSTORMS LINGERING DURING THE MORNING
HOURS. SOUTH OF THE FRONT...SLIGHTLY WARMER...MORE HUMID AND UNSTABLE
AIR WILL BE NOTED. A STORM SYSTEM IN THE PLAINS WILL INTENSIFY AND
WILL DRAG A COLD FRONT TOWARD ARKANSAS. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP WITH SEVERE WEATHER
LIKELY SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.

AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT THE SEVERE WEATHER ON SUNDAY COULD
BE WIDESPREAD. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES ARE ALL
POSSIBLE. PEOPLE ACROSS ARKANSAS SHOULD MONITOR FORECAST
INFORMATION CLOSELY TO KEEP TRACK OF THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION.

THE COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE PLAINS WILL STALL
ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. SYSTEMS
WILL CONTINUE ARRIVING FROM THE PLAINS...AND WILL JOIN WITH
THE FRONT TO TRIGGER SEVERAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
ARKANSAS TONIGHT. ACTIVATION IS LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF THE
STATE ON SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT
HOURS.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 3:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 4:55 AM CDT, 48 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
May 2, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	46 min
May 2, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	39 min
May 2, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	32 min
May 3, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	43 min
May 3, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	36 min
May 3, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	37 min
May 3, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	35 min
May 3, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	32 min
May 3, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, White	31 min
May 3, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke	33 min
May 3, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	29 min
May 3, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	31 min
May 3, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	32 min
May 3, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	21 min
May 3, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	37 min
May 3, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.