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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 20, 2005, 10:30 PM CST for Conway County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 20, 2005, 10:30 PM CST (04:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2005, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Conway County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
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 Feb 20, 3:05 PM CST, 7 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 3:05 PM CST, 7 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 305 PM CST SUN FEB 20 2005 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE COME TO AN END ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE TIME BEING. THE PRECIPITATION HAS MOVED OFF TO THE EAST. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW PLENTY OF CLOUDS ACROSS THE AREA WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES ENTERING NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SURFACE LOW IS NEAR ST. LOUIS AND THE COLD FRONT EXTENDS SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. COLD FRONT WILL ENTER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AROUND 00Z TONIGHT. THE FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. IF THE CLOUDS BREAK UP STILL THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP IN A RATHER UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. COLD AIR ALOFT WOULD SUPPORT HAIL DEVELOPMENT. HIGHEST POPS WILL BE IN THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA TONIGHT...AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. MODELS ARE IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH DRIER AIR MOVING IN MONDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE MOVES IN TUESDAY. BUT SEVERAL SHORT WAVES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WILL JUST KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PREIP IN FOR TUESDAY AND CHANCE OF PRECIP IN FOR TUESDAY NIGHT. CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY. && .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY BIG UPPER RIDGE TO THE WEST AND STRONG UPPER TROF IN THE EAST WILL DOMINATE THE PATTERN THROUGH THE PERIOD. MAIN SOUTHERN STREAM WILL BE SUPPRESSED TO THE SOUTH. HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA WILL KEEP PERSISTENT NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS. MOST OF THE MOISTURE WILL BE TO THE SOUTH. WENT WITH SMALL POPS IN THE SOUTH THURSDAY AND SATURDAY AND KEEP NORTHERN SECTIONS DRY. WENT DRY AREAWIDE FOR FRIDAY AND SUNDAY AS AIR LOOKS DRIER AND NO SHORT WAVES APPEAR TO BE AFFECTING THE AREA AT THOSE TIMES. TEMPS WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL WITH MINS A LITTLE BELOW FREEZING IN THE NORTH AND IN THE MID AND UPPER 30S ELSEWHERE...MAXES GENERALLY IN THE 40S IN THE NORTH TO LOWER 50S IN THE SOUTH WITH MINOR DAILY FLUCTUATIONS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 56 71 47 62 / 40 30 10 20 HARRISON AR 48 62 40 55 / 20 20 10 20 HOT SPRINGS AR 56 73 47 64 / 40 20 10 20 PINE BLUFF AR 58 73 48 64 / 40 40 10 20 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 48 61 40 55 / 30 30 10 20 MONTICELLO AR 60 75 50 66 / 40 40 10 20 SEARCY AR 54 68 46 60 / 40 40 10 20 MOUNT IDA AR 56 72 47 65 / 40 20 10 20 RUSSELLVILLE AR 53 66 44 60 / 30 20 10 20 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...LAKE WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 600 PM CST SUNDAY FOR ZONES ARZ003>007...ARZ012>016...ARZ021>025... ARZ030>034...ARZ037>047...ARZ0 52>057...ARZ062>069. && 51/29
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 20, 4:15 PM CST, 6 hours 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 49 min |
| Feb 20, 9:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 38 min |
| Feb 20, 9:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 27 min |
| Feb 20, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 65 min |
| Feb 20, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 30 min |
| Feb 20, 10:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 48 min |
| Feb 20, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 48 min |
| Feb 20, 11:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 12:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, Woodruff | 30 min |
| Feb 21, 2:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 52 min |
| Feb 21, 2:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Searcy | 64 min |
| Feb 21, 3:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 49 min |
| Feb 21, 3:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Stone, Van Buren | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 3:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Sharp | 61 min |
| Feb 21, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 5:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 59 min |
| Feb 21, 6:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.