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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 2:35 PM CDT for Cleveland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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 13, 2004, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 3:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cleveland County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 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 Jun 13, 10:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 10:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1055 AM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 .DISCUSSION... SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS WEAKENING AS THEY PUSH INTO CENTRAL SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS FROM THE NORTH. DRIER AIR/LOWER DEWPOINTS BEHIND THE CONVECTION...WITH WARM/HUMID AIR FARTHER SOUTH. LEFTOVER BOUNDARY SEPARATING AIRMASSES MAY BECOME FOCUS FOR MORE SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. MORNING SOUNDING FROM LZK NOT SHOWING MUCH OF A CAP TODAY...WITH MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES NOT AS WARM AS IN RECENT DAYS. WITH BOUNDARY IN PLACE...AND WITH SYSTEM ALOFT FROM OKLAHOMA EXPECTED TO INTERACT WITH BOUNDARY...SCATTERED THUNDER MAY BE SKEWED MORE TOWARD CENTRAL/SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...WITH EMPHASIS LATELY FARTHER NORTH. WENT AHEAD AND UPDATED FORECAST TO SKEW PRECIPITATION A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON...ALTHOUGH KEPT A CHANCE OF THUNDER IN THE NORTH. AS WAS THE CASE ON SATURDAY...WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO HAVE SPOTTY SEVERE WEATHER...WITH LARGE HAIL/STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 46
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-141000- 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- 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A BOUNDARY FROM PRECIPITATION IN MISSOURI LAST NIGHT HAS PUSHED INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE...A SYSTEM ALOFT WILL ARRIVE FROM OKLAHOMA...AND WILL INTERACT WITH THE BOUNDARY. AS A RESULT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. STORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WILL DISSIPATE THIS EVENING...WITH ONLY ISOLATED PRECIPITATION EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SUMMERLIKE WEATHER IS IN THE FORECAST TO START THE WEEK...WITH WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. TOWARD MIDWEEK...A SYSTEM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL NEAR...WITH CLOUDS INCREASING. A COLD FRONT WILL ALSO PUSH INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTH...AND WILL STALL. FAIRLY GOOD CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION ARE EXPECTED FROM MID TO LATE WEEK. ALSO...WITH MORE CLOUDS...TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOULD REMAIN SPOTTY. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Dallas | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 46 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.