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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 13, 2003Conway County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2003, 4:36 PM CDT for Conway County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2003, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Conway County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

202 
WUUS54 KLZK 132136
SVRLIT
ARC029-132215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
434 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CONWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 431 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL POPE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES NORTH OF ATKINS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SAINT VINCENT AROUND 440 PM CDT
  SOLGOHACHIA AROUND 445 PM CDT

&&

THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM IS THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL OR LARGER.
THE HAIL MAY CAUSE SOME VEHICLE OR ROOF DAMAGE. STRONG AND GUSTY
WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO
INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

LAT...LON 3543 9283 3535 9251 3513 9252 3525 9284

$$

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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 13, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	38 min
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, 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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.