Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 4:52 AM CDT for Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 2, 2004, 4:52 AM CDT (09:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2004, 5:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Drew County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Jun 2, 3:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 344 AM CDT WED JUN 2 2004 .DISCUSSION... ANOTHER MCS DEVELOPED IN NORTHEAST TEXAS LAST EVENING AND CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA THIS MORNING. MOVEMENT OF THE COMPLEX IS RIGHT ALONG THE STALLED FRONT IN THIS AREA AND AN AREA OF MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING AS IT SEEMS TO BE TAKING A TURN TO THE NORTHEAST. A SMALL CAP NOTED IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS WILL KEEP THUNDERSTORMS FROM SPREADING TOO FAR TO THE NORTH THIS MORNING. ANOTHER COLD FRONT IS LOCATED TO THE NORTH OF THE STATE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF KANSAS. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATER THIS MORNING AS THIS FRONT MOVES CLOSER TO THE STATE. THIS FRONT WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. THIS FRONT WILL MAKE ITS WAY INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BY THURSDAY MORNING...AND HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTH. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES MOVE ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND WILL KEEP CHANCES OF PRECIP IN FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. ETA IS DRIER THAN THE GFS BUT WILL STICK WITH GFS SOLUTION. GFS HAS THE FLOW BECOMING MORE SOUTHWEST ON TUESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE SOUTHEAST U.S. THIS WILL GIVE ARKANSAS A BREAK FROM THE UNSETTLED WEATHER. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR NORMAL INTO THE WEEKEND. HIGHS WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER ON THURSDAY BEHIND THE FRONT THAT MOVES IN FROM THE NORTH. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 86 65 82 62 / 30 20 10 20 HARRISON AR 83 57 79 57 / 20 20 10 20 HOT SPRINGS AR 86 65 83 63 / 30 30 20 20 PINE BLUFF AR 86 66 84 63 / 30 30 20 20 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 82 57 78 56 / 20 20 10 20 MONTICELLO AR 87 66 85 64 / 30 30 20 20 SEARCY AR 86 64 81 60 / 30 20 10 10 MOUNT IDA AR 86 64 83 64 / 30 30 20 30 RUSSELLVILLE AR 85 62 81 63 / 30 30 10 20 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 51
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 9:40 PM CDT, 7 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Pulaski | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Marion | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Sharp | 41 min |
| Jun 2, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Stone | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 4:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Sharp | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Stone | 118 min |
| Jun 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Perry | 118 min |
| Jun 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 5:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Scott | 119 min |
| Jun 2, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Yell | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 23 min |
| Jun 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 119 min |
| Jun 2, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.