Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2004, 10:54 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2004, 11:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pulaski County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, 9:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 9:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 910 PM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 LATEST SURFACE DATA INDICATES COLD FRONT ROUGHLY FROM SOUTH OF CGI AND POF...TO NEAR FLP...AND SOUTH OF SLG. CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY...NEAR INTERSECTION OF DEVELOPING SURFACE LOW AND H5 SHORTWAVE. TAKING A LOOK AT THE 00Z SOUNDING DATA...ONLY A VERY SMALL CAP AT AROUND 700 MB. UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT HAS INCREASED NORTH OF THE FRONT...AS EVIDENCED BY 50KT JET AT SGF. ALSO...SGF RADAR INDICATES SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION ATTEMPTING TO FORM BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. EARLIER TONIGHT...ISOLATED STRONG CELLS FORMED OVER TWO OF OUR NORTHEASTERN MOST COUNTIES. ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH ONE CELL OVER EASTERN FULTON COUNTY. NOW THAT HEATING OF THE DAY HAS DIED OFF...STORMS NOT NEARLY AS IMPRESSIVE. AS FAR AS THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...WHILE AN ISOLATED ONE IS NOT TOTALLY OUT OF THE QUESTION...FEEL THAT THE BEST POTENTIAL WILL BE EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER...AS SURFACE LOW MOVES NORTHEAST ALONG THE FRONT AND INTERACTS WITH THE UPPER SYSTEM. NOW FOR UPDATES TO THE GOING FORECAST... FOR THE MOST PART... TEMPERATURES SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM FALLING TO FORECASTED MINS TONIGHT. THE ONLY AREA THIS MAY BE IN JEOPARDY WOULD BE THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST...WHERE THE FRONT WILL NOT REACH UNTIL AROUND SUNRISE. HAVE ADJUSTED TEMPERATURES IN THIS AREA UP A DEGREE OR TWO. WILL ALSO LEAVE SCATTERED POPS IN AREA WIDE...WITH THE HIGHEST CHANCES IN THE EAST. HAVE ALSO ADJUSTED FORECASTED TEMPERATURES AND DEWPOINTS TO BETTER ACCOUNT FOR ONGOING SENSIBLE WEATHER TRENDS. UPDATE WILL BE OUT BY 930 PM. .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. 57
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 7:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 733 PM 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- 733 PM 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...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE REGION TONIGHT IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A FEW STORMS WILL 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... DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE STORMS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED 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- 733 PM CDT WED AUG 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ARKANSAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A WALDRON...TO LITTLE ROCK TO BRINKLEY LINE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT 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... DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE STORMS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. 51
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 4, 7:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
738 PM CDT WED AUG 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0642 PM HAIL 10 N CHEROKEE VILLAGE 36.45N 91.53W
08/04/2004 1.00 INCH FULTON AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
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57The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 46 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.