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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 4:08 PM CDT for Independence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 37 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 14, 2005, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Independence County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 960 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1399 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 14, 2:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 2:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 206 PM CDT SUN AUG 14 2005 .DISCUSSION... TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY A QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF MY NORTHERN COUNTY WARNING AREA TONIGHT. THE REST OF MY AREA WILL LIKELY SEE A DECREASE IN ACTIVITY LATER TONIGHT. GUIDANCE MODELS ARE NOT IN AGREEMENT ON THE MOVEMENT OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY BUT THE OVERALL MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS IMPRESSIVE. A FEW AREAS ACROSS THE NORTH COULD SEE SOME HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STRONGER STORMS COULD SPREAD INTO THE CENTRAL SECTIONS TOMORROW IF THE FRONT MOVES SOUTHWARD. A RELATIVELY DRY DAY CAN BE EXPECTED NEXT SUNDAY.(38) && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 73 93 73 94 / 30 40 20 20 HARRISON AR 69 86 69 90 / 50 50 30 30 HOT SPRINGS AR 73 93 72 94 / 30 40 20 20 PINE BLUFF AR 74 94 73 95 / 30 30 20 20 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 69 86 70 89 / 50 50 30 30 MONTICELLO AR 75 95 73 95 / 30 30 20 20 SEARCY AR 73 92 72 93 / 30 40 30 20 MOUNT IDA AR 73 93 72 94 / 30 40 20 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 72 91 71 92 / 40 40 30 20 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT AND LONG TERM...38
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 12:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1202 PM CDT SUN AUG 14 2005 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-151000- 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- 1202 PM CDT SUN AUG 14 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...PRIMARILY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF ARKANSAS. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. ISOLATED RAINFALL TOTALS WITH THE STORMS WILL BE IN THE RANGE OF 1 TO 2 INCHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 29 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.