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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 484, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 16, 2003Searcy County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 2003, 11:49 PM CDT for Searcy County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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
Oct 16, 2003, 11:49 PM CDT (04:49 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 2003, 12:35 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Searcy County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2003-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 53 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2003-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
53 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott44 min
Oct 16, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk49 min
Oct 17, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne31 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.