Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2004, 9:03 PM CDT for Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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 8, 2004, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2004, 9:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 8, 8:10 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 8:10 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 810 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 .DISCUSSION... UPDATED FORECAST TO PUT HIGHER CHANCES FOR RAIN IN MOST AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE STATE. UPPED RAINFALL AMOUNTS AS WELL. MCS CONTINUES TO HEAD TOWARD CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS EVENING FROM THE NORTHWEST. NOTICE THAT OUTFLOW STARTING TO OUTRUN LINE OF STORMS...SO WOULD EXPECT SOME WEAKENING TO OCCUR. THIS ALONG WITH WEAK WINDS ALOFT WOULD SUPPORT ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER. PRECIPITATION SHOULD PRETTY MUCH FALL APART AFTER MIDNIGHT. CLOUDS WILL ALSO THIN OUT...WITH PATCHY FOG FORMING. THANKS TO SPC FOR COORDINATION. (46) && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 46
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 3:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 325 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-091000- 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- 325 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SYSTEM ALOFT WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI FROM KANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING...WITH THE LINE EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO NORTHERN AND PERHAPS CENTRAL ARKANSAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS...WITH HAIL IN SOME AREAS. THIS WOULD INCLUDE AREAS NORTH AND WEST OF MENA...CONWAY AND HARDY. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE POPPING UP THROUGH THIS EVENING. WITH A SLOW MOVEMENT AND A MOIST ATMOSPHERE...THE STORMS WILL TEND TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE IN A FEW SPOTS. OVERNIGHT...ALL PRECIPITATION SHOULD DISSIPATE BY MIDNIGHT OR SO...WITH PATCHY FOG DEVELOPING AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE FROM TEXAS INTO NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS WILL BRING SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY. OTHERWISE...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ALOFT THIS WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK...WITH HOT AND MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS IN THE FORECAST. ONLY ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. WHILE STORMS WILL BE ISOLATED...THEY MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS. THE STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED. THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES FROM THE PLAINS...WHICH HAVE AFFECTED MUCH OF ARKANSAS RECENTLY...WILL TEND TO MOVE NORTH OF THE REGION WITH HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS A LINE OF STORMS ARRIVES FROM MISSOURI. 46
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 5:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
527 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0430 PM HAIL MCRAE 35.11N 91.82W
07/08/2004 0.75 INCH WHITE AR PUBLIC
&&
44Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
711 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0655 PM TSTM WND DMG CLARKSVILLE 35.46N 93.47W
07/08/2004 JOHNSON AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN IN CLARKSVILLE
&&
220Local storm report, Jul 8, 8:46 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
846 PM CDT THU JUL 08 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0635 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 NW CLARKSVILLE 35.51N 93.54W
07/08/2004 JOHNSON AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN ON HWY 103
0640 PM HAIL 3 W CLARKSVILLE 35.46N 93.53W
07/08/2004 0.75 INCH JOHNSON AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
0645 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 W CLARKSVILLE 35.46N 93.56W
07/08/2004 JOHNSON AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN ON HWY 352
0730 PM TSTM WND DMG LONDON 35.33N 93.25W
07/08/2004 POPE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN IN LONDON
0750 PM TSTM WND DMG DANVILLE 35.05N 93.39W
07/08/2004 YELL AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN IN DANVILLE
0800 PM TSTM WND DMG BLUFFTON 34.90N 93.60W
07/08/2004 YELL AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN IN BLUFFTON
&&
220The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 7:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Stone | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2004Every 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.