Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 397, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2003, 10:20 PM CDT for Clark County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 55 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
- Jul 29, 2003, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clark County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 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 Jul 29, 3:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 350 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003 SHORT TERM... BOUNDARY DROPPING SLOWLY FROM CENTRAL INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. CONVECTION SETTING UP NEAR BOUNDARY IN WEST CENTRAL SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL MOST LIKELY BUILD EAST/SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT. GIVEN THIS SCENARIO...TRENDING TOWARD HIGHEST CHANCES OF RAIN IN CENTRAL/SOUTHERN SECTIONS OVERNIGHT WITH A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. LOTS OF CLOUDS/LEFTOVER CONVECTION WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH PRECIPITATION BECOMING MORE SCATTERED DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. CLOUDS WILL ALSO BREAK UP SOMEWHAT. LOW PRESSURE IN SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL HEAD TOWARD THE REGION...AND WILL DRAG A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE STATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. DATA SUGGESTS THAT PRECIPITATION WILL REFIRE MAINLY IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WITH SMALLER RAIN CHANCES FARTHER NORTH. FRONT WILL EXIT THE REGION TO THE EAST THURSDAY...WITH ANY PRECIPITATION ENDING. EXTENDED... DRY WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ON FRIDAY. GFS SHOWING SHORTWAVE MOVING IN FROM THE PLAINS DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. IN COORDINATION WITH OTHER OFFICES...HAVE ADDED A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. HAVE ALSO REDUCED TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY FROM ONGOING FORECAST AS HIGH NOT AS AGGRESSIVE IN MOVEMENT TO THE EAST. HRO 66 84 66 87 / 40 40 20 20 LIT 72 88 72 91 / 60 60 30 30 HOT 73 89 73 91 / 50 50 30 30 PBF 73 90 73 92 / 50 50 40 40 .LZK...NONE. 58/46
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 5:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-301000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 555 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE DEVELOPING IN WESTERN ARKANSAS...AND WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE. THE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL OR LARGER THIS AFTERNOON. OVERNIGHT...THE STORMS WILL BECOME A LITTLE MORE NUMEROUS...WITH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT DECREASING. HOWEVER...THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH ONE TO TWO INCH AMOUNTS POSSIBLE MAINLY SOUTH OF CLARKSVILLE AND SEARCY. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY OCCUR IN SOME SPOTS...WITH ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BEFORE DIMINISHING. A STORM SYSTEM IN THE PLAINS WILL DRAG A COLD FRONT INTO ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THE FRONT WILL EXIT THE STATE LATER ON THURSDAY WITH DRY WEATHER IN THE FORECAST ON FRIDAY. OVER THE WEEKEND...A COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH WITH CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION RETURNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TONIGHT. THEREFORE... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 46
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
509 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM 3 NE ROVER AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/29/03 YELL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
28Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
513 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0410 PM 4 NE ROVER AR WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 YELL POWER LINES DOWN. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
28Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
517 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM DANVILLE AR .75 INCH HAIL
07/29/03 YELL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
28Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
519 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0320 PM LODI AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/29/03 PIKE HAIL LASTED HALF AN HOUR
AND COVERED THE GROUND.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC
28Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
525 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0205 PM MOUNT IDA BEARCE ARPT AR WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 MONTGOMERY TREE DOWN IN A DRIVEWAY
ACROSS FROM THE AIRPORT.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
28Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
538 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM 5 N MOUNTAIN PINE AR WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 GARLAND TREES DOWN...SOME ON
CAMPING TRAILERS AT LAKE
OUACHITA STATE PARK. NO
INJURIES. REPORTED BY STATE
PARKS DEPT.
0330 PM 5 N MOUNTAIN PINE AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/29/03 GARLAND SOME VEHICLES DAMAGED BY
HAIL AT LAKE OUACHITA STATE
PARK. REPORTED BY STATE
PARKS DEPT.
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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.