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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 477, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 26, 2003Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 5:16 PM CDT for Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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 26, 2003, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 280 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: 4837 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 26, 2:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
238 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2003

OUR RADAR NOW INDICATES SOME OF THE STORMS ARE SEVERE. EXPECT STORMS
TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING OVER MOST OF OUR AREA. HIGHER MEAN RH
WEDNESDAY WILL BRING A SIMILAR DEVELOPMENT FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. A COLD FRONT WILL BRING A FEW MORE STORMS
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...SOME OF THESE COULD BECOME SEVERE. MOS GUIDANCE
TEMPS APPEAR REASONABLE.

FCSTID =   38
HRO   71  95  72  94 /  30  40  30  30
LIT   73  96  75  95 /  30  40  30  30
HOT   75  97  75  96 /  30  40  30  30
PBF   75  96  75  95 /  30  40  30  30

.LZK...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 11:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-271000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1155 AM CDT TUE AUG 26 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S...AND
WITH HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS...HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 105 TO 110 CAN BE
EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE PLANNING TO BE OUTDOORS TODAY WILL
NEED TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO AVOID HEAT RELATED ILLNESS.

DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME
UNSTABLE WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING. THIS WILL MAINLY
OCCUR IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY
BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH LABOR DAY

HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY. HOWEVER...WITH
HIGHER MOISTURE LEVELS...AFTERNOON CLOUDS AND COVERAGE OF
THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE. THIS WILL HELP KEEP THE HEAT AND
HUMIDITY IN CHECK...BUT HEAT INDICES WILL STILL EXCEED 100 DEGREES.

A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA FRIDAY...AND COULD BRING RELIEF
FROM THE HEAT...AS WELL AS MUCH NEEDED RAINFALL. THE LATEST DATA
INDICATE A SLOWER MOVEMENT TO THE FRONT...SO DETAILS WILL BE GIVEN
AS MORE DATA BECOMES AVAILABLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 26, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
330 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0230 PM    LUBER                     AR   .88 INCH HAIL
08/26/03   STONE                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC

0230 PM    LUBER                     AR   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03   STONE                          RESIDENT SAID WIND BLEW
                                          THE FAN OUT OF HER
                                          WINDOW...CAUSING RAIN TO
                                          BLOW ACROSS HER LIVING
                                          ROOM. REPORTED BY PUBLIC

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Local storm report, Aug 26, 4:41 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
441 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0330 PM    FEENYVILLE                AR   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03   LINCOLN                        LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER

0355 PM    VIOLA                     AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03   FULTON                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0410 PM    SALEM                     AR   WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03   FULTON                         TREES DOWN ALONG STATE
                                          HIGHWAY 9 NORTH. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

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Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:07 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
507 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0501 PM    PRATTSVILLE               AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/26/03   GRANT                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC

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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
Aug 26, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Stone	32 min
Aug 26, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	28 min
Aug 26, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	31 min
Aug 26, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	36 min
Aug 26, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lincoln	30 min
Aug 26, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	28 min
Aug 26, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	31 min
Aug 26, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	29 min
Aug 26, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	36 min
Aug 26, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	30 min
Aug 26, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	33 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.