Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 431, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2003, 9:11 PM CDT for Fulton County, Izard County, Arkansas. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 4, 2003, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2003, 10:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fulton County, AR, Izard County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 2096 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 Aug 4, 9:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 9:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 930 AM CDT MON AUG 4 2003 ...UPDATED THE ZONES TO TAKE OUT REFERENCES TO MID MORNING... LAST OF THE SHRA/TSRA ACTIVITY DISSIPATED OVER NRN AR DURG THE PAST HOUR. POORLY DEFINED SFC BNDRY STILL INDCD OVER SRN MO. SEVERAL OUTFLOW BNDRYS ARE MEANDERING OVER NRN AND CNTRL AR ATTM AND MAY PLAY A ROLE IN ADDITIONAL CONVECTIVE FORMATION LATER TODAY. ACTIVE NWLY FLOW ALOFT IS PROGGED BY THE MODELS TO CONT ACRS AR FOR THE SHORT TERM. A SERIES OF SHRTWVS WL CONT TO DROP SEWD AND AFFECT THE FA OVER THE NEXT 48 HRS. ONCE AGAIN...TIMING AND STRENGTH OF EACH SHRTWV ALWAYS DIFFICULT WITH THIS PATTERN. CONT TO LEAN TOWARD THE ETA SOLUTION WHICH FOCUSES MAIN AXIS OF CONVECTION OVER NRN AND ERN AR THE NEXT 2 DAYS. EXPECT THE NEXT ROUND OF CONVECTION TO FIRE OVER ERN KS/WRN MO LATER TODAY/EARLY TNGT AND PROPAGATE SEWD INTO NRN AR OVERNIGHT. HAVE PLACED HIGHEST POPS OVER MY NRN ZNS...WITH LESSER CHCS FURTHER SOUTH. EXPECT STORMS TO LINGER INTO THE MRNG HRS ON TUE BEFORE THEY WEAKEN. LATER SHIFTS WILL HAVE TO MONITOR HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL WITH PWS PROGGED FROM 1.5 TO 2 INCHES. HAVE TRENDED WITH THE SLIGHTLY COOLER AVN MOS TEMPS FOR THE SHORT TERM WITH LINGERING RAIN CHCS AND PLENTY OF CLOUD COVER ARND. IN THE EXTENDED...LONGER RANGE MODELS STILL SHOWING A CDFNT WORKING THRU THE FA DURG MIDWEEK. LATEST CANADIAN SOLUTION ABT 12 TO 24 HRS SLOWER WITH FROPA...SHOWING IT THRU THE FA ON THU. MEANWHILE...UPR RDG STILL PROGGED TO BUILD SLOLY EWD FOR LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK RESULTING IN WARMER TEMPS AND LTL IF ANY RAIN CHCS. ONLY SOME MINOR TWEAKS MADE TO TEMPS IN THE GRIDS. OTRW...FCST IN GOOD SHAPE. ..44.. .LZK...NONE. 32
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 5:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-051000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 550 PM CDT MON AUG 4 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO BE SEVERE. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL DEVELOP IN ARKANSAS...WHILE OTHERS WILL ENTER THE STATE FROM KANSAS...OKLAHOMA...AND MISSOURI. A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING DOWN FROM THE NORTHWEST COULD AFFECT A LARGE PART OF NORTHERN ARKANSAS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. IN ADDITION...SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTH WILL GRADUALLY SLIDE TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST...POSSIBLY REACHING CENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE DURING THE LATE NIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ON TUESDAY AS MORE AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE ALOFT APPROACH ARKANSAS FROM THE NORTHWEST. A COLD FRONT WILL BE APPROACHING AS WELL. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...AGAIN WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY CONCERN. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A POSSIBILITY AS WELL. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH ON WEDNESDAY...BRINGING AN END TO ANY LINGERING PRECIPITATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TONIGHT IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. 28
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:33 PM CDT, 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 57 min |
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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.