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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 23, 2004Montgomery County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2004, 5:09 PM CDT for Montgomery 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 23, 2004, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2004, 5:40 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2004-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2328 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2004-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.1

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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.