Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 478, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 6:05 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2003, 6:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 1470 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 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 Aug 26, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 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, 5:30 PM CDT, 35 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 530 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 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 ACROSS ARKANSAS INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SEVERAL STORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE DURING THE AFTERNOON...WITH UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REPORTED. ADDITIONAL SPOTTY SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS POSSIBLE...MAINLY IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. AFTER SUNSET...STORMS WILL RAPIDLY WEAKEN...WITH LITTLE ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT. .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. DURING WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. AGAIN...A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA FRIDAY...AND COULD BRING RELIEF FROM THE HEAT AS WELL AS MORE WIDESPREAD RAINFALL. IT IS UNCERTAIN IF THE FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE...AND THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THE FRONT MAY STALL ACROSS THE REGION. THE SITUATION WILL BECOME MORE CLEAR AS ADDITIONAL DATA BECOMES AVAILABLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 46
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 26, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 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
28Local storm report, Aug 26, 4:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 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
22Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:07 PM CDT, 58 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
22Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
530 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0320 PM BANNER AR .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 CLEBURNE REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0525 PM GLEN ROSE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 HOT SPRING REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
22Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:54 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK, AR
554 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM 2 W PRATTSVILLE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 GRANT REPORTED BY PUBLIC
22The 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, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 33 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.