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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Little Rock, AR

October 19, 2004Bradley County, Drew County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2004, 6:37 AM CDT for Bradley County, Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 53 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
Oct 19, 2004, 6:37 AM CDT (11:37 UTC)
Expired
Oct 19, 2004, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bradley County, AR, Drew County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2004-10-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3499 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2004-10-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
348 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.3
Supercell composite
22.5

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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 Oct 19, 4:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 4:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 18, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas61 min
Oct 18, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKDallas49 min
Oct 18, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson58 min
Oct 18, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas44 min
Oct 18, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson, Lincoln56 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.