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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2005, 2:41 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Polk 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
- Aug 24, 2005, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Montgomery County, AR, Polk County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 325 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
- 723 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 24, 2:32 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:32 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 232 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2005 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE ANALYSIS CURRENTLY INDICATES STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM BETWEEN MENA AND FORT SMITH...TO NORTH OF LITTLE ROCK...TO NEAR MEMPHIS AND POINTS EASTWARD. STORM SYSTEM OUT IN KANSAS LAST NIGHT/EARLY THIS MORNING PUT OUT A SURFACE WAVE WHICH HAS INTERACTED WITH THE STALLED BOUNDARY TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. LARGE H5 RIDGE REMAINS ANCHORED OVER THE GULF COAST...THUS THE FRONT ISN/T GOING ANYWHERE FOR A WHILE. SEVERAL UPPER SYSTEMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE DOWN IN THE MEAN FLOW AND CONTINUE INTERACTING WITH THE STALLED BOUNDARY. SYSTEMS THEMSELVES ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO TIME...BUT THE TENDENCY WILL BE SIMILAR TO THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS...WITH SOME NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY...POSSIBLY IN THE FORM OF MCS DEVELOPMENT...THEN DIMINISHING IN THE MORNING...AND REFIRING IN THE AFTERNOON. LOOKING TOWARD THE WEEKEND...THE FRONT WILL LIKELY WASH OUT...WITH ANOTHER ONE APPROACHING. THUS...WE CAN LARGELY EXPECT THE SAME SCENARIO TO CONTINUE. LEFT CHANCE/SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THE FORECAST THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED...WITH TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMS IN MOST AREAS NORTH OF THE FRONT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 74 93 75 95 / 20 30 30 30 HARRISON AR 67 84 72 85 / 40 40 30 30 HOT SPRINGS AR 74 94 74 96 / 20 30 30 20 PINE BLUFF AR 74 95 75 94 / 20 20 30 30 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 66 84 71 89 / 30 40 40 30 MONTICELLO AR 74 95 75 95 / 20 20 30 30 SEARCY AR 73 92 75 94 / 20 30 30 30 MOUNT IDA AR 72 95 74 96 / 20 30 30 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 72 93 73 94 / 20 40 30 20 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT AND LONG TERM...57
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 1:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 115 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2005 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-251000- 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- 115 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS ARKANSAS. MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL DISSIPATE BY SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH ARKANSAS ON FRIDAY. THE MAIN WEATHER THREAT WILL BE STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 38
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Ouachita | 44 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.