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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2004, 1:17 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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 12, 2004, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 2508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 Jun 12, 9:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 915 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SHOWERS POPPING UP THIS MORNING FROM SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS. WOULD FULLY EXPECT OUTFLOW FROM STORMS IN MISSOURI TO TRIGGER HIT AND MISS SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. GIVEN THIS...WENT WITH 30/40 PERCENT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN ABOUT NORTHWEST TWO THIRDS OF STATE...WITH HIGHEST CHANCES TOWARD NORTHWEST COUNTIES. ONLY 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN THE SOUTHEAST. IN MOST CASES...MENTIONED THAT THUNDER WOULD BE ISOLATED GIVEN SOME CAPPING...AND THE FACT THAT THUNDER HAS HAD DIFFICULTY DEVELOPING LATELY. (46) && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 46
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 12:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1203 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-131000- 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- 1203 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL... BUT ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS COULD OCCUR AS WELL. IN ADDITION... THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HIGH HUMIDITY AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL KEEP SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AROUND THE AREA DUE TO AFTERNOON HEATING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 11:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 11:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 36 min |
| Jun 12, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 31 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.