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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2006, 8:57 PM CST for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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
- Jan 9, 2006, 8:57 PM CST (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2006, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pope County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 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 Jan 9, 4:02 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 4:02 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 402 PM CST MON JAN 9 2006 .SHORT AND LONG TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY FINALLY...IT APPEARS WE WILL GET SOME MUCH NEEDED RAINFALL ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. NOT A DROUGHT-BUSTER...BUT EVERY LITTLE BIT OF MOISTURE HELPS WHEN YOU ARE AS DRY AS WE ARE. FOR THE LAST 3 MONTHS OF 2005...OUR AREA AVERAGED A TOTAL OF ABOUT 9 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THAT SAID...NOW ON TO THE FORECAST. FRONTAL SYSTEM WAS STALLED OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AT MID AFTERNOON. VIGOROUS H5 LOW WILL DROP OUT OF THE PLAINS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY AND BRING GOOD CHANCES OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO OUR AREA. AS THE CENTER OF THE UPPER LOW MOVES ACROSS EXTREME NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS ON TUESDAY...LOWER THICKNESS VALUES ALONG WITH THE 0 DEGREE LINE AT 850 MB WILL SHIFT SOUTHWARD INTO THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS. VALUES SHOULD BE LOW ENOUGH TO PRODUCE A RAIN AND SNOW MIX OVER ABOUT OUR NORTHERN 2 TIERS OF COUNTIES BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. AT THIS TIME...I EXPECT LITTLE OR NO ACCUMULATIONS. ELSEWHERE THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD REMAIN LIQUID. ALL PRECIPITATION SHOULD MOVE OUT THE AREA BY TUESDAY EVENING. THEN DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. NEXT FRONT SHOULD BE A FAST MOVER AND AFFECT THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. MOISTURE AT THIS TIME APPEARS IT WILL BE SOMEWHAT LIMITED...SO DONT EXPECT ANY LARGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN BEHIND WITH DRY WEATHER EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND. NEXT FRONT WILL THEN MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON MONDAY WITH AGAIN SMALL CHANCES OF RAINFALL. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 45 48 35 59 / 90 90 10 0 HARRISON AR 35 35 30 55 / 70 70 10 0 HOT SPRINGS AR 45 49 34 61 / 80 80 10 0 PINE BLUFF AR 49 51 36 61 / 90 90 10 0 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 35 36 32 55 / 70 70 10 0 MONTICELLO AR 52 56 38 62 / 80 80 10 0 SEARCY AR 42 47 35 57 / 80 90 10 0 MOUNT IDA AR 43 48 33 62 / 80 80 10 0 RUSSELLVILLE AR 40 45 32 59 / 70 70 10 0 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 22
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 11:12 AM CST, 9 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1112 AM CST MON JAN 9 2006 ARZ030-031-014-033-012-013-037-038-053-056-057-054-055-015-016- 034-062-063-052-067-066-065-064-069-068-025-005-004-007-024-003- 041-040-043-042-045-044-047-046-022-021-032-023-006-039-101100- LOGAN-CONWAY-STONE-WHITE-NEWTON-SEARCY-SCOTT-YELL-CLARK-JEFFERSON- ARKANSAS-HOT SPRING-GRANT-IZARD-INDEPENDENCE-WOODRUFF-DALLAS- CLEVELAND-PIKE-CALHOUN-OUACHITA-DESHA-LINCOLN-DREW-BRADLEY- JACKSON-BAXTER-MARION-SHARP-CLEBURNE-BOONE-MONTGOMERY-POLK-SALINE- GARLAND-LONOKE-PULASKI-MONROE-PRAIRIE-POPE-JOHNSON-FAULKNER- VAN BUREN-FULTON-PERRY- 1112 AM CST MON JAN 9 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT THIS AFTERNOON. AT THE SAME TIME...AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM DEVELOPING OFF THE ROCKIES WILL MOVE TOWARD ARKANSAS. THESE SYSTEMS WILL INTERACT THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...AND WILL OVERSPREAD MUCH OF THE STATE TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS IN THE EXTREME SOUTH COULD PRODUCE HAIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH IN MOST AREAS...WITH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS LIKELY ACCUMULATING MORE THAN AN INCH OF RAIN. .DAY TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON TUESDAY...AND WILL GRADUALLY COME TO AN END BY TUESDAY EVENING...AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVE NORTHEAST AND AWAY FROM ARKANSAS. SOME OF THE RAIN MAY BE MIXED WITH SNOW IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS TUESDAY NIGHT BEFORE COMING TO AN END. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL AFFECT ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER CHANCE OF RAIN TO MUCH OF THE STATE. THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 22
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Pope, Yell | 38 min |
| Jan 9, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 38 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.