Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2004, 7:24 PM CDT for Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Aug 4, 2004, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2004, 8:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fulton County, AR, Sharp County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 2976 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 Aug 4, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 .DISCUSSION... HIGH LVL CLOUDS HAVE HELD AFTN TEMPS A FEW DEGREES LOWER THAN FCST. HOWEVER...SFC DEWPOINTS IN THE MID AND UPPER 70S ARE PRODUCING HEAT INDICES AROUND ADVY CRITERIA. WILL LET ADVY EXPIRE WITH THIS FCST ISSUANCE. LATEST SFC DATA SHOWS CDFNT EXTENDS FROM SWRN MO BACK INTO NWRN OK. BNDRY HAS BEEN MOVING A BIT SLOWER THAN PROGS INDCD BUT EXPECT IT TO SPEED UP THIS EVENING AND WORK INTO NWRN AR. AREA RADARS ARE QUIET ATTM...BUT LATEST RUC STILL SHOWING SCTD SHRA/TSRA FORMING BY THIS EVENING ALONG THE FNT AS UPPER SUPPORT ARRIVES AND CAP ERRODES. MENTIONED SCTD POPS TNGT ALONG AND AHEAD OF CDFNT. LEFT SOME LINGERING SLIGHT CHC POPS IN FOR SERN AR THU MRNG ALONG DEPARTING FNT. OTHERWISE...MUCH DRIER AIR WILL GRADUALLY FILTER IN ON NWLY WINDS THU AFTN AND NIGHT. MODELS STILL IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH OVERALL TRENDS IN THE LATER PDS. UPPER HIGH WILL CONT TO RETROGRADE WWD AND A SIG UPPER TROF WILL FORM OVER THE ERN PART OF THE NATION. RESULTANT NWLY FLOW ALOFT ACRS AR WILL PUSH LATEST CDFNT WELL S OF THE FA BY LATE IN THE WEEK. BLO NORMAL TEMPS AND MUCH DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN BEHIND FROPA AND PERSIST INTO SAT. SFC HIGH PRES SLIPS E OF THE FA OVER THE WEEKEND...ALLOWING RETURN FLOW TO SET UP AND A RETURN TO MORE NORMAL TEMPS. NWLY FLOW ALOFT WILL PREVAIL BUT LITTLE IN THE WAY OF UPPER ENERGY TO SUPPORT RAIN CHCS INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE NEXT CDFNT IS PROGGED TO AFFECT AR TUE AND WED...WHICH AGAIN IS A LITTLE SLOWER THAN YESTERDAY/S DATA INDCD. HAVE PLACED CHC POPS IN FOR DAY 6 AND 7 WITH FROPA. GOING FCST TEMP TRENDS IN THE EXTENDED LOOK GOOD AND NO SIG CHGS MADE. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 44
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 8:40 AM CDT, 10 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 840 AM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-051000- BAXTER-BOONE-CLEBURNE-CONWAY-FAULKNER-FULTON-INDEPENDENCE-IZARD- JACKSON-JOHNSON-LOGAN-MARION-NEWTON-POPE-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE- VAN BUREN-WHITE-WOODRUFF- 840 AM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH-CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS GENERALLY NORTH OF A BOONEVILLE...RUSSELLVILLE... CONWAY TO AUGUSTA LINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE COMBINATION OF HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER AND MID 90S AND HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDEX VALUES FROM 100 TO 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS ARE URGED TO TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE HEAT TODAY. TRY TO LIMIT LONG PERIODS OF STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY AND DRINK PLENTY OF NON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE REGION LATER TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A FEW STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. ARZ037>047-052>057-062>069-051000- ARKANSAS-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEVELAND-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-GARLAND- GRANT-HOT SPRING-JEFFERSON-LINCOLN-LONOKE-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-OUACHITA- PERRY-PIKE-POLK-PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-YELL- 840 AM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ARKANSAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF WALDRON...LITTLE ROCK TO BRINKLEY LINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE COMBINATION OF HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID AND UPPER 90S AND HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDEX VALUES FROM 105 TO 110 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS ARE URGED TO TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE HEAT TODAY. TRY TO LIMIT LONG PERIODS OF STRENUOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITY AND DRINK PLENTY OF NON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. HOWEVER...THE CHANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEAR LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. 44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 31 min |
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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.