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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2005, 8:54 PM CDT for Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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
- Apr 29, 2005, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2005, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Drew County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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 Apr 29, 4:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 4:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 107 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2005 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-301000- 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- 107 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STATIONARY FRONT CONTINUES ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REPEATEDLY DEVELOPED AND MOVED ALONG THIS FRONT TODAY WITH LARGE HAIL. THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. OUTFLOW FROM THIS MORNINGS THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RESULTED IN A FRONTAL SYSTEM ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM THIS AFTERNOON. LARGE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO...THERE IS A CHANCE ISOLATED TORNADOES COULD RESULT NEAR THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM LATER THIS AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT FROM THE WEST WILL MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING WITH A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ALONG THE FRONT INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THIS FRONT LATER THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. THE BEST CHANCE OF TORNADOES WILL BE NEAR OR A LITTLE EAST OF THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...AND ALONG THE FRONTAL SYSTEMS RESULTING FROM THE OUTFLOW FROM THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING. A SQUALL LINE MAY DEVLOP ALONG THE COLD FRONT BEFORE IT MOVES OUT OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS THIS EVENING. SHOULD THIS OCCUR... DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WILL BECOME THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE. ALL SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA EARLY TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE TOWARD THE GULF COAST SATURDAY. DRY WEATHER WILL RETURN BRIEFLY...BEFORE THE FRONT BACKS TO THE NORTH AS A WARM FRONT EARLY NEXT WEEK. UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...AS THE BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO STALL NEAR THE MID AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEYS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...BUT ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT IN MOST OF THE AREA. 29
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 29, 3:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
348 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0320 PM HAIL HEBER SPRINGS 35.50N 92.04W
04/29/2005 0.75 INCH CLEBURNE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
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28Local storm report, Apr 29, 4:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 38 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.