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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2006, 6:43 PM CDT for Independence County, Jackson 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
- Jun 22, 2006, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2006, 7:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 1214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 Jun 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 300 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2006 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS WILL BE MOVING TO THE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA. MODELS ARE MOVING THE FRONT THROUGH FASTER...WHICH IS UNUSUAL AND WILL BE A LITTLE MORE CONSERVATIVE WITH THE FRONTAL MOVEMENT RIGHT NOW. THE UPPER RIDGE DOES RETROGRADE WITH AN UPPER TROF SHARPENING IN THE EAST WHICH WILL INCREASE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WHICH WILL FAVOR THE FRONT PASSING THROUGH THE AREA. AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER AT FORECAST TIME WILL LIKELY SAG SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH THROUGH THE NIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY. ISOLATED ACTIVITY ELSEWHERE THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD FIZZLE BY EVENING. WENT WITH HIGHEST POPS IN THE NORTH AT FIRST TONIGHT WITH LOWER POPS TO THE SOUTH AND INCREASED POPS LATER TONIGHT INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS. WENT WITH HIGHER POPS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS ON FRIDAY. MOST OF THE RAIN AND THE FRONT MAY BE OUT OF THE AREA BY FRIDAY NIGHT BUT AM NOT SO SURE THIS WILL MOVE OUT THAT FAST. LEFT POPS IN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT WITH THE HIGHEST IN THE SOUTH. HIGH PRESSURE FROM THE SOUTH BUILDS IN BY SATURDAY AND TOOK RAIN OUT OF THE FORECAST FOR MOST AREAS. THERE IS STILL EVIDENCE A SHORT WAVE IN NORTHWEST FLOW MAY AFFECT THE AREA ON SUNDAY. STUCK IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS. TEMPS SHOULD HOLD UP TONIGHT WITH MOST MINS WELL INTO THE 70S. THE NORTHWEST MAY COOL INTO THE UPPER 60S WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA AND POSSIBLE FRONTAL PASSAGE LATE. MAXES FRIDAY SHOULD BE HELD DOWN IN THE NORTH FROM CLOUDS...RAIN...AND THE FRONT BUT MOST OTHER AREAS SHOULD BE ABLE TO HEAT UP AGAIN THOUGH MAYBE NOT AS MUCH AS TODAY. COOLER TEMPS SHOULD MOVE IN FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT AND WENT RATHER CLOSE TO GUIDANCE. && .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AN UPPER TROUGH WILL BE OVER THE GREAT LAKES AND INTO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY TO START THE PERIOD. MOISTURE WILL BE LIMITED OVER ARKANSAS SO WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY. NORTHWEST FLOW FLATTENS OUT BY WEDNESDAY WITH MORE PROGRESSIVE FLOW. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TO BRING SMALL CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. NORMAL SUMMERTIME TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 74 89 68 88 / 40 50 30 10 HARRISON AR 67 83 63 85 / 50 50 20 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 74 89 68 88 / 40 50 30 10 PINE BLUFF AR 74 92 69 89 / 40 50 30 20 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 67 83 63 84 / 50 50 20 10 MONTICELLO AR 75 95 70 91 / 30 40 40 20 SEARCY AR 73 90 66 88 / 50 50 30 10 MOUNT IDA AR 73 88 63 87 / 40 50 30 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 70 87 62 86 / 50 50 30 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...29 / LONG TERM...57
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 2:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 215 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-231000- 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- 215 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARD NORTH ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AND SPREAD MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTH HALF OF ARKANSAS. THE ACTIVITY MAY EVOLVE INTO A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT AND EFFECT PARTS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. WHILE A FEW OF THE STORMS OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT...THE CHANCES OF ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LIMITED. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FOR EXTREME NORTH ARKANSAS. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM BOONEVILLE...TO HOT SPRINGS...TO PINE BLUFF TO DE WITT. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHWARD ACROSS ARKANSAS THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY. GOOD CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST ALONG THE FRONT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO REMAIN POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 44
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 29 min |
| Jun 22, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 47 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.