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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2003, 1:08 AM CDT for Baxter County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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
- Apr 20, 2003, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2003, 1:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baxter County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 Apr 19, 9:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 9:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 945 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 ...UPDATE THIS EVENING... CURRENT FORECAST IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE BUT GRIDS/ZONES WILL NEED TO UPDATED TO REFLECT CURRENT TRENDS. SHOWERS CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHEAST WITH THE OCCASIONAL STRONG STORM STILL HOLDING ON. MAIN FOCUS WILL BE LINE OF INTENSE CONVECTION MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE. CURRENT THINKING IS MOST WILL MISS THE CWA BUT IT WILL BE FOLLOWED CLOSELY. LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO MOVE FROM CENTRAL ARKANSAS TOWARDS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. STRONG DYNAMICS ALOFT APPEAR TO BE STAYING PRIMARILY TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE STATE. FRONT WILL PUSH INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS BY SUNDAY MORNING AND WILL EDGE SLOWLY EAST DURING THE DAY. MAIN DYNAMICS/WIND ENERGY WILL RIDE NORTH OF THE STATE GIVING FRONT LITTLE PUSH. DURING LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON HOURS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP IN AREAS MAINLY SOUTH/EAST OF LITTLE ROCK...WITH MOSTLY DRY WEATHER BEHIND THE FRONT. FCSTID = 56 .LZK...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 7:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-201000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 728 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS OKLAHOMA DEVELOPED IN ASSOCIATION WITH A COLD FRONT AND AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ALOFT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ENTER WESTERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT THEN PUSH FARTHER INTO THE STATE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...MAINLY OVER WESTERN AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS ON SUNDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE NEAR THE FRONT. ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS...MAINLY DURING THE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT. 51
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 20, 12:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1202 AM CDT SUN APR 20 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1045 PM 2 SW HUNT AR .88 INCH HAIL
04/19/03 JOHNSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
28The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha, Lincoln | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 28 min |
| Apr 20, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 25 min |
| Apr 20, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 29 min |
| Apr 20, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 29 min |
| Apr 20, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 29 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.