Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2004, 4:42 PM CDT for Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 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 29, 2004, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Desha County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 Apr 29, 4:38 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 4:38 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 1:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 130 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-301000- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 130 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THE CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION WILL BE LESS ACROSS THE NORTH BUT SOME SHOWERS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST PARTS OF THE STATE MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH TORNADOS POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THE MAJORITY OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL EXIT THE AREA QUICKLY THIS EVENING BUT SCATTERED SHOWERS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AS THIS FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE STATE. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WOULD BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WITH A SQUALL LINE. THIS WILL BE MOST LIKELY FRIDAY NIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS MAY CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY UNTIL THE COLD FRONT MOVES OUT OF THE STATE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANYING THE COLD FRONT. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE AND GENERAL RAINFALL WILL NOT BE NEARLY AS HEAVY AS LAST WEEK. HOWEVER DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUND IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND RIVER FLOODING CONTINUING IN SOME LOCATIONS...THE RAINS ON FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY COULD AGGRAVATE OR PROLONG FLOODING IN SOME AREAS. RUNOFF AND FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL GENERALLY SUBSIDE SLOWLY ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS ASIDE FROM WHAT AGGRAVATION IS CAUSED BY THE RAINS THROUGH SATURDAY. FLOODING ON PARTS OF THE LOWER WHITE RIVER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 29
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Bradley | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.