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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 522, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 22, 2006Woodruff County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2006, 4:42 AM CDT for Woodruff 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: Sep 22, 2006, 4:42 AM CDT (09:42 UTC)
Expired: Sep 22, 2006, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Sep 22, 4:39 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 Sep 22, 3:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 3:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 21, 1:05 PM CDT, 15 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
105 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-221000-
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-
105 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY BRINGING WARM
HUMID AIR TO THE STATE. AS A BOUNDARY APPROACHES FROM THE
WEST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. SOME OF THESE
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE
MAIN CONCERNS. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LATE THIS
AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS...MAINLY IN AREAS WEST OF LITTLE
ROCK.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

WARM HUMID AIR WILL REMAIN OVER THE STATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY...WITH
ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE. AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES
SATURDAY...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
DEVELOP. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THIS LINE WILL BE DAMAGING
WINDS...BUT THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED
TORNADOES. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORMS.

ALL HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL BE OUT OF THE AREA BY SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT MOSTLY
IN WESTERN ARKANSAS.

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

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 21, 11:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1106 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006

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

1023 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GRANNIS                 34.24N 94.32W
09/21/2006                   POLK               AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN.

1023 PM     HAIL             HATFIELD                34.49N 94.38W
09/21/2006  E0.75 INCH       POLK               AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

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Local storm report, Sep 22, 1:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 22, 1:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 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
Sep 21, 10:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk	56 min
Sep 21, 11:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	56 min
Sep 22, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring	56 min
Sep 22, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence	52 min
Sep 22, 1:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	53 min
Sep 22, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Yell	26 min
Sep 22, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	37 min
Sep 22, 2:43 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more	36 hr
Sep 22, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	23 min
Sep 22, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard, Stone	45 min
Sep 22, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Stone	35 min
Sep 22, 6:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Sharp	30 min
Sep 22, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	35 min
Sep 22, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	50 min
Sep 22, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Searcy	39 min
Sep 22, 1:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Searcy	38 min
Sep 22, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	34 min
Sep 22, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard	33 min
Sep 22, 2:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Stone	26 min
Sep 22, 2:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton	51 min
Sep 22, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard, Sharp	60 min
Sep 22, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	48 min
Sep 22, 3:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Newton	52 min
Sep 22, 3:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone	34 min
Sep 22, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	39 min
Sep 22, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion, Searcy	46 min
Sep 22, 4:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Searcy	37 min
Sep 22, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	42 min
Sep 22, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	24 min
Sep 22, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter	31 min
Sep 22, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Stone	38 min
Sep 22, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion	34 min
Sep 22, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard	43 min
Sep 22, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	24 min
Sep 22, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton	39 min
Sep 22, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Newton	30 min
Sep 22, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	29 min
Sep 22, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson	25 min
Sep 22, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Sharp	52 min
Sep 22, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Newton	28 min
Sep 22, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	50 min
Sep 22, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	55 min
Sep 22, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard	49 min
Sep 22, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	46 min

Nearby

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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.