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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2003, 3:37 PM CDT for Johnson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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 13, 2003, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Johnson County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 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 13, 10:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 10:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1050 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2002 SHORT WAVE AXIS ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA...MOVING EAST PER SATELLITE IMAGERY. AN INCREASE IN SHRA/TSRA HAS BEEN NOTED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME WESTERN ARKANSAS SINCE 14Z. CONVECTIVE COMPLEX NOW ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS/EXTREME NORTHERN OKLAHOMA MAY AFFECT NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA FROM 17-20Z. .LZK...NONE 55
Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-141000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 235 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THIS MORNING IN CENTRAL KANSAS AND MOVED INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE PUSHING THROUGH WESTERN ARKANSAS INTO THIS EVENING...AND SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LATER TONIGHT...ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NORTH AND WEST OF ARKANSAS...AND WILL PUSH INTO THE STATE MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS OVERNIGHT...MAINLY IN THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE STATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER MOST AREAS ON WEDNESDAY...WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 37 min |
| May 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Yell | 37 min |
| May 13, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 39 min |
| May 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 49 min |
| May 13, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 37 min |
| May 13, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 48 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.