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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2005, 1:29 AM CDT for Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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 27, 2005, 1:29 AM CDT (06:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 2710 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 26, 9:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 9:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 5:00 AM CDT, 20 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT FRI AUG 26 2005 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-271000- 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- 500 AM CDT FRI AUG 26 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR AREAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CLARKSVILLE TO GREENBRIER TO NEWPORT. THIS INCLUDES THE LITTLE ROCK METRO AREA. HOT TEMPERATURES...COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY...WILL BRING OPPRESSIVE CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH THROUGH MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND INTERACT WITH THE HOT TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE STATE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH ARKANSAS TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES AREAS NORTH OF A CLARKSVILLE TO CLINTON TO BATESVILLE LINE. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH THE STATE SATURDAY... WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING INTO SATURDAY AFTERNOON. COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH DRY WEATHER IN THE FORECAST MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT...MAINLY IN THE NORTH. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 58
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 26, 8:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1252 AM CDT SAT AUG 27 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1225 AM TSTM WND DMG MOUNT PLEASANT 35.98N 91.78W
08/27/2005 IZARD AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
POWER POLES AND LINES DOWN.
&&
58The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Izard, Sharp | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Sharp | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 6:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie | 43 min |
| Aug 27, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 6:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson | 113 min |
| Aug 27, 8:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 9:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 9:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 23 min |
| Aug 27, 12:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 113 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.