Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 10:30 AM CDT for Cleburne County, Stone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 60 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 8, 2003, 10:30 AM CDT (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cleburne County, AR, Stone County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 564 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 May 8, 9:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 9:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 902 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 UPDATED FORECASTS FOR TORNADO WATCH #299 EFFECTIVE THROUGH 1 PM TODAY. .LZK...NONE. 51
Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 10:19 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 46 min |
| May 8, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 45 min |
| May 8, 8:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson | 45 min |
| May 8, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 44 min |
| May 8, 8:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pope | 49 min |
| May 8, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Van Buren | 43 min |
| May 8, 10:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2003Every 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.