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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2005, 7:16 PM CDT for Baxter County, Izard County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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 15, 2005, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baxter County, AR, Izard County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 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 15, 3:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 3:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 301 PM CDT MON AUG 15 2005 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT CONVECTION HAS SLOWLY INCREASED IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY SINCE 18Z...PER TRENDS INDICATED BY LOCAL RADAR DATA. DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...EXPECT THE STRONGEST STORMS ACROSS THE EXTREME NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...IN A REGION OF THE GREATEST INSTABILITY AND BEST FORCING. A VERY SLOW MOVING BOUNDARY ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN AS IT SLIDES INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA ON TUESDAY. FORCING ASSOCIATED THIS FEATURE WILL BE WEAK...EXPECT A PRONOUNCED DIURNAL TREND TO CONVECTION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. CONVECTION COVERAGE WILL DECREASE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...AS MID AND UPPER LEVEL HEIGHTS INCREASE ACROSS THE REGION. && .LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE NATION CHANGES GRADUALLY TO A LONGWAVE RIDGE OVER THE WEST AND A LONGWAVE TROUGH OVER THE EAST BY 12Z MONDAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN A BARELY NOTICEABLE WIND SHIFT AT THE SURFACE DURING THE DAYTIME SUNDAY. THEN...DRIER AIR WILL FILTER IN FROM THE NORTHEAST AS SURFACE RIDGE MOVES INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST. FORECAST TEMPS WILL FOLLOW PERSISTENCE AND REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 72 91 73 93 / 30 30 30 20 HARRISON AR 68 85 70 89 / 40 40 40 30 HOT SPRINGS AR 72 91 73 93 / 30 30 30 20 PINE BLUFF AR 73 91 74 93 / 30 30 30 20 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 68 85 70 89 / 40 40 30 30 MONTICELLO AR 73 92 73 94 / 20 20 20 20 SEARCY AR 72 90 73 92 / 30 30 30 20 MOUNT IDA AR 72 91 73 93 / 30 30 30 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 71 90 72 91 / 30 30 30 30 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...55 / LONG TERM....32
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 5:00 AM CDT, 14 hours 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, White | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 2:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | White | 115 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.