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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 413, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 4, 2006Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2006, 5:04 PM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 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, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2006, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 305 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
300 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2006

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-051000-
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-
300 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS..

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A WEAK COLD FRONT HAS DRIFTED FROM NORTHERN ARKANSAS INTO THE
CENTRAL SECTION OF THE STATE. IT WILL CONTINUE TRIGGERING SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS
EVENING.

PRECIPITATION WILL BE MOST CONCENTRATED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ISOLATED THROUGH THIS EVENING...WITH
STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN CONCERN. ALSO...THERE WILL BE A
VERY SMALL CHANCE OF HAVING A FEW STORMS THAT PRODUCE HAIL.

STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL MOVE SLOWLY. THIS WILL INCREASE THE
LIKELIHOOD OF HEAVY RAIN...WITH AMOUNTS EXCEEDING ONE INCH IN SOME
AREAS. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

LATE IN THE WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK...HIGH PRESSURE WILL STRENGTHEN
OVER THE REGION. ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE
FORECAST...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.
OTHERWISE...HOT TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED WITH DRY CONDITIONS IN
MOST AREAS.

DURING THIS TIME FRAME...TROPICAL STORM CHRIS WILL HAVE MOVED FROM
THE CARIBBEAN SEA INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. IT APPEARS THAT CHRIS
WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY STRENGTHENING...AND WILL LIKELY REMAIN TO THE
SOUTH OF ARKANSAS WITH HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE
WEATHER THROUGH TONIGHT.

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND
CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 4, 2:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
242 PM CDT FRI AUG 04 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0200 PM     TSTM WND DMG     8 WNW BENTON            34.61N 92.71W
08/04/2006                   SALINE             AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN ON HWY 5 NEAR THE ALUM FORK BRIDGE.

&&

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 2:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
242 PM CDT FRI AUG 04 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0200 PM     TSTM WND DMG    11 WNW BENTON            34.61N 92.71W
08/04/2006                   SALINE             AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN ON HWY 5 NEAR THE ALUM FORK BRIDGE.

&&

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:08 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:17 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:54 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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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, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	45 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, 5:07 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, 2006 Every 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.