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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2005, 8:12 PM CST for Arkansas County, Monroe County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Mar 30, 2005, 8:12 PM CST (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2005, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Arkansas County, AR, Monroe County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2152 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Mar 30, 2:30 PM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:30 PM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CST WED MAR 30 2005 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT LARGE CYCLONE IS WELL TO OUR NORTH. DRY AIR OVER MUCH OF THE STATE WITH A SLIGHT RECOVERY OF DEW POINTS OVER EASTERN ARKANSAS. FORECAST ALREADY INCLUDED SLIGHT CHANCES FOR THE EAST TONIGHT...AND THAT WILL DO WELL. NEXT UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BE WELL DEFINED BY TOMORROW MORNING. IT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH EAST... BRINGING INCREASING CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION TO THE STATE AS THE DAY GOES ON TOMORROW. THE HIGHEST CHANCES OF RAIN WILL COME DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING. PREVIOUS FORECAST ALREADY INCLUDED LIKELY POPS...SO I BUMPED THEM TO NEAR 80 PERCENT TOMORROW NIGHT. DRYING IS STILL ON ITS WAY ACROSS ARKANSAS FOR THE WEEK END. && .LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE EARLY PART OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH SEASONAL TEMPERATURES CONTINUING. DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. A SHIFT TO A SOUTHWEST FLOW LATE MONDAY NIGHT WILL LEAD TO INCREASED MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA. A COLD FRONT WILL BE APPROACHING FROM THE WEST AND OPEN UP THE GULF. WILL HAVE POPS IN FOR TUESDAY AND DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. FRONT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND ON WEDNESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 52 72 48 58 / 10 40 80 60 HARRISON AR 44 65 42 52 / 10 40 80 60 HOT SPRINGS AR 53 73 46 59 / 10 40 80 50 PINE BLUFF AR 56 76 50 63 / 20 30 80 60 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 45 68 43 51 / 10 30 80 60 MONTICELLO AR 59 78 52 64 / 20 30 80 60 SEARCY AR 51 71 48 56 / 20 30 80 60 MOUNT IDA AR 53 73 45 58 / 10 40 80 50 RUSSELLVILLE AR 49 71 44 57 / 10 40 80 60 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM UNTIL 6 PM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...ARZ003...ARZ004...ARZ005...ARZ006... ARZ007...ARZ012...ARZ013...ARZ014...ARZ015...ARZ021...ARZ022... ARZ023...ARZ024...ARZ030...ARZ031...ARZ037...ARZ038...ARZ040... AND ARZ041. && SHORT TERM...32 / LONG TERM....22
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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.