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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 12, 2004Van Buren County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2004, 4:04 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 4:35 PM CDT
In force: 31 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 21:05 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
Jun 12, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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, 3:10 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:10 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 12:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
230 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0210 PM     HAIL             DESHA                   35.73N 91.68W
06/12/2004  0.75 INCH        INDEPENDENCE       AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            40 MPH WIND GUSTS

&&

109

Local storm report, Jun 12, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
300 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0255 PM     HAIL             HECTOR                  35.47N 92.98W
06/12/2004  0.75 INCH        POPE               AR   PUBLIC

&&

109

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, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	28 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2004 Every 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.