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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 7, 2003Cleveland County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2003, 4:33 AM CDT for Cleveland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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 7, 2003, 4:33 AM CDT (09:33 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2003, 5:05 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cleveland County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 6, 11:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

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 6, 2:21 PM CDT, 14 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:21 PM CDT, 14 hours 12 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 6, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	43 min
May 6, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope, Searcy	60 min
May 6, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	45 min
May 6, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	40 min
May 6, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	57 min
May 6, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	60 min
May 6, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard	46 min
May 6, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone	29 min
May 6, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	30 min
May 6, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, White	45 min
May 7, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson	46 min
May 7, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	29 min
May 7, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	61 min
May 7, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	39 min
May 7, 2:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring	46 min
May 7, 2:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	2 hr
May 7, 2:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant	30 min
May 7, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	47 min
May 7, 3:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Grant	118 min
May 7, 3:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson	61 min
May 7, 3:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	119 min
May 7, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	46 min
May 7, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	45 min
May 7, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	28 min
May 7, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	32 min
May 7, 4:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	118 min
May 7, 4:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Jefferson	2 hr
May 7, 4:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Woodruff	119 min
May 7, 4:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lincoln	43 min
May 7, 6:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas	2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.