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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 14, 2005Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2005, 3:13 AM CDT for Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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: May 14, 2005, 3:13 AM CDT (08:13 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 650 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.1

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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 May 13, 9:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 9:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope	44 min
May 14, 3:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	48 min
May 14, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	26 min
May 14, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.