Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2004, 2:55 PM CDT for Monroe County, Prairie County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 2, 2004, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2004, 3:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Monroe County, AR, Prairie County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 876 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 Jul 2, 2:55 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:55 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 255 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT REMNANTS OF MCS CONTS WORKING ACRS CNTRL AR ATTM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS CONTS TO AFFECT PARTS OF THE FA AS WELL. LOOKS LIKE BULK OF ACTIVITY SHOULD BE OVER ERN AR BY EARLY THIS EVENING AND WILL MAKE FINAL DECISION ON EVENING POPS JUST BEFORE ZONE ISSUANCE. UPPER SYSTEM CENTERED OVER ERN KS THIS AFTN IS PROGGED TO SHIFT EWD OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. MEANWHILE...ANOTHER COMPLEX OF STORMS IS FCST FORM TO OUR NW LATER THIS EVENING AS MORE ENERGY ROTATES AROUND THE UPPER LOW. ACTIVITY IS PROGGED TO WORK SEWD LATE TONIGHT AND SAT MRNG...AFFECTING MUCH OF NRN AND CNTRL AR. HAVE STUCK WITH THE MESOETA SOLUTION FOR MUCH OF THE SHORT TERM. AS FOR THE HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL...APPEARS THAT NRN AND CNTRL SECTIONS WILL SEE THE GREATEST THREAT WITH THE NEXT COMPLEX LATER TNGT. THUS...PLAN TO EXTEND FF WATCH THRU TNGT FOR NRN AND CNTRL SECTIONS AND ALLOW WATCH FOR SRN AR TO EXPIRE AT 00Z. UPPER SYSTEM MOVES FURTHER AWAY FROM THE FA LATER SAT AND SUN TO ALLOW FOR DECREASING POPS. MESOETA STILL SHOWING POSSIBLE REMNANTS OF ANOTHER MCS DROPPING SEWD INTO AR BY SUN MNRG. HAVE STUCK WITH GOING FCST AND KEPT SLGT CHC POPS TO CLOSE OUT THE WEEKEND. MOS MIN TEMPS THRU THE PERIOD LOOK GOOD AND PRETTY MUCH FOLLOW PERSISTENCE. HAVE GONE BELOW MOS MAX TEMPS FOR SAT WITH EXPECTED CLOUD COVER AND RAIN CHCS. SWLY SFC FLOW ON SUN WL ALLOW FOR A WARMING TREND. MOS OUTPUT INDCG HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 90S FOR SUN. THESE READINGS SEEM A LITTLE TOO WARM WITH SOIL MOISTURE QUITE HIGH AND HAVE GONE ABOUT A CAT LOWER SUN AND MON. && .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A COLD FRONT WILL ENTER THE NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS EARLY WEDNESDAY AND THEN MOVE SLOWLY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST. AND BY THURSDAY MORNING THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR THE SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BORDER. THIS WILL BRING ABOUT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY. COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN SECTIONS AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. BY FRIDAY THE FRONT WILL BE QUASI-STATIONARY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BORDER. THIS WILL LIKELY KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 700 PM CDT FRIDAY FOR ZONES ARZ052>057... ARZ062>069. FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 800 AM CDT SATURDAY FOR ZONES ARZ003>007... ARZ012>016...ARZ021>025...ARZ030>034...ARZ037>047. && 44/38
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 8:15 AM CDT, 6 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 815 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-031000- 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- 815 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A LARGE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS TODAY. BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER FROM THIS CONVECTION WILL AID IN NEW SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF ANY STORMS...AND THE COPIOUS MOISTURE IN THE AIR...HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF ARKANSAS DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 2 INCHES. THIS WILL LEAD TO FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE AROUND THE MAIN UPPER LEVEL LOW TODAY...AND WILL GENERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN ARKANSAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS OVER ALL SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. AS THIS ENERGY INTERACTS WITH MOISTURE OVER THE STATE. HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERNS WITH THIS FEATURE TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY LEFTOVER BOUNDARIES FROM STORMS FRIDAY WILL HELP TO TRIGGER NEW STORMS SATURDAY. MUCH OF THE STATE IS IN A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS SATURDAY...AS A COLD FRONT INTERACTS WITH MOISTURE OVER THE STATE. HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS WITH SEVERE WEATHER. FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK...MOISTURE WILL BE PLENTIFUL ONCE AGAIN ACROSS THE STATE...AND WITH WARM UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TUESDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE WEDNESDAY...BRINGING A BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE FORECAST FOR THURSDAY IS FOR DRY CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 38
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 2, 10:06 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1006 AM CDT FRI JUL 02 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0100 PM FLASH FLOOD MONTONGO 33.73N 91.82W
07/01/2004 DREW AR DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
NUMEROUS ROADS UNDER WATER AND CLOSED IN AND NEAR
MONTONGO.
&&
56Local storm report, Jul 2, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 118 min |
| Jul 2, 11:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Scott | 2 hr |
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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.