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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 13, 2004Fulton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2004, 8:12 PM CDT for Fulton 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 13, 2004, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 8:40 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fulton County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 2203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1192 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 13, 3:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
305 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

.SHORT TERM...
SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS
THIS AFTERNOON. STORMS WILL DISSIPATE THIS EVENING...WITH
QUIET NIGHT IN STORE.

NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...LOOKS SUMMERLIKE WITH WARM/FAIRLY HUMID
CONDITIONS. WILL BE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON/EVENING
CONVECTION...MAINLY IN SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. IN GENERAL...
NOT MUCH RAIN TO GO AROUND.

TOWARD MIDWEEK...SYSTEM IN GULF OF MEXICO WILL SPREAD MORE
MOISTURE/CLOUDS INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE SOUTH. ALSO...COLD
FRONT WILL BE ARRIVING FROM THE NORTH AND STALLING ACROSS THE
REGION. INCREASING RAIN CHANCES TOWARD MIDWEEK WITH SLIGHTLY
COOLER TEMPERATURES.
&&

.LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY
FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MEANDER ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY. THE
FRONT WILL THEN MOVE THROUGH THE STATE ON SUNDAY. WILL CONTINUE LOW
CHANCES OF RAIN THROUGH SUNDAY. EXTENDED PORTION OF FORECAST LOOKS
GOOD. BUMPED THE MINIMUM TEMPERATURES UP A BIT.
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
LITTLE ROCK AR    72  90  73  89 /  20  20  30  40
HARRISON AR       68  88  68  88 /  10  10  20  20
HOT SPRINGS AR    72  90  73  89 /  20  20  30  30
PINE BLUFF AR     72  90  73  88 /  30  20  40  40
MOUNTAIN HOME AR  69  88  68  88 /  10  10  20  20
MONTICELLO AR     72  90  73  87 /  30  20  40  50
SEARCY AR         72  90  72  90 /  20  20  30  30
MOUNT IDA AR      72  90  72  89 /  20  20  30  30
RUSSELLVILLE AR   70  89  71  90 /  20  20  30  30
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 12 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.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
431 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

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

0200 PM     HAIL             THORNTON                33.78N 92.48W
06/13/2004  1.00 INCH        CALHOUN            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0215 PM     TSTM WND DMG     FORDYCE                 33.82N 92.41W
06/13/2004                   DALLAS             AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POWER LINES DOWN

0240 PM     HAIL             5 NW NEW EDINBURG       33.80N 92.31W
06/13/2004  0.75 INCH        CLEVELAND          AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

0330 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 S CORNERVILLE         33.82N 91.93W
06/13/2004                   LINCOLN            AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LARGE LIMBS DOWN

&&

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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.