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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 397, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2006, 1:30 PM CDT for Saline 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
- Aug 4, 2006, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2006, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 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 Aug 4, 12:45 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 12:45 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1245 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2006 .AVIATION... RATHER DIFFUSE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS CENTRAL AR THIS HOUR... DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT EXACTLY WHERE IT IS LOCATED. WINDS AT KLIT SHIFTED TO A NWLY DIRECTION OVER AN HOUR AGO BUT KHOT STILL SHOWING A SWLY WIND. PREVIOUS CONVECTION ACROSS THE NRN PORTIONS OF THE FCST AREA HAS MOVED OFF TO THE EAST BUT I AM ANTICIPATING ADDITIONAL CONVECTION THIS AFTN. VIS SAT SHOWS SOME CU WITH VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE STATE...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS CENTRAL AR...AND A FEW CONVECTIVE CELLS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS NWRN AR IN THE PAST 10 TO 15 MINUTES. WILL CONTINUE THE TREND OF BRINGING THE FRONT SLOWLY SWD ACROSS THE STATE IN THE TAFS AND I HAVE MENTIONED CB IN THE FORECAST GROUPS THIS AFTN. DID NOT PUT ANY TSTM TEMPO GROUPS OR VCTS IN THE TAFS BUT WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON CONVECTIVE TRENDS AND UPDATE AS NECESSARY. 53 .PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 1038 AM CDT FRI AUG 4 2006/ AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE CWFA. NOT MUCH MOVEMENT HAS BEEN NOTED THE LAST HOUR BUT IT SHOULD SLOWLY MOVE OFF TO THE EAST SHORTLY. SCATTERED CLOUDS WERE OVER THE WEST CENTRAL SECTIONS AND CLEAR SKIES DOMINATED THE REST OF THE AREA ACCORDING TO SATELLITE IMAGES. THE COLD FRONT SEEMS TO STILL BE DRAPED ACROSS NORTH ARKANSAS WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT. TEMPERATURES ARE STILL WARMING UP NICELY ACROSS THE AREA SO RAISED TEMPERATURES IN MOST AREAS. ADJUSTED CLOUD COVER AND POPS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AS WELL. WILL EXPECT MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON...WHERE THE FOCUS WILL BE FURTHER SOUTH THAN YESTERDAY. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 5:00 AM CDT, 8 hours 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 11:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Pulaski | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.