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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 20, 2005Drew County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2005, 6:05 PM CDT for Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 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 20, 2005, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2005, 6:39 PM CDT
In force
34 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 23:07 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 20, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2005-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 758 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2005-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
758 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun54 min
May 20, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley57 min
May 20, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun45 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.