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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 15, 2004Pope County, Van Buren County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2004, 4:28 PM CDT for Pope County, Van Buren 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 2004, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Pope County, AR, Van Buren County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -486 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1268 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KLZK 152128
SVRLIT
ARC115-141-152215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
428 PM CDT THU JUL 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POPE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  VAN BUREN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 422 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BROCK CREEK LAKE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES 
  WEST OF CLINTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DRIVERS CREEK LAKE AROUND 440 PM CDT

&&

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE WARNING AREA IS STRONG AND
GUSTY WINDS. SOME DAMAGE MAY OCCUR SUCH AS DOWNED TREES OR TREE LIMBS
AND POWER LINES. THE STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE HAIL IN SOME AREAS. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

LAT...LON 3563 9273 3554 9292 3541 9287 3549 9269

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring	44 min
Jul 15, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	31 min
Jul 15, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne	45 min
Jul 15, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	40 min
Jul 15, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	31 min
Jul 15, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	43 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.