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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2004, 2:34 PM CDT for Scott County, Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 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 24, 2004, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2004, 3:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Scott County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 750 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 24, 10:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 10:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 12:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1215 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-251000- 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- 1215 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA...MAINLY FOR THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL REMAIN IN THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THEN WILL SLOWLY MOVE TO THE SOUTH. THIS ALONG WITH STRONG HEATING AND INSTABILITY WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS MOST OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST STORMS. ISOLATED MARBLE TO PENNY SIZED HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD WEAKEN WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING BUT THE CHANCE OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVING...AND MAY PRODUCE AS MUCH AS ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR OR LESS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE OUT OF THE STATE ON SUNDAY. RAIN CHANCES WILL DIMINISH...AND DRY WEATHER WILL RETURN BY SUNDAY NIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN BY MID WEEK...BEGINNING IN THE WEST ON WEDNESDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH FRIDAY...AS SEVERAL MORE SYSTEMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS. AT THIS TIME...ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 29
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 61 min |
| Jul 24, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 34 min |
| Jul 24, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 38 min |
| Jul 24, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 47 min |
| Jul 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Newton, Searcy | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike | 34 min |
| Jul 24, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Jul 24, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 38 min |
| Jul 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 36 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.