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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 565, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2006, 2:30 PM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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 23, 2006, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2006, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 23, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 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 Sep 23, 6:52 AM CDT, 7 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 6:52 AM CDT, 7 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 652 AM CDT SAT SEP 23 2006 .AVIATION... SQUALL LINE ACROSS NW AR SHOULD CONTINUE MOVING SEWD. POSITION OF LINE IS AHEAD OF WHAT THE MODELS WOULD SUGGEST. THIS LEADS TO A DILEMMA AS TO WHETHER THE LINE WILL JUST PROGRESSING TO THE SE...OR WHETHER IT WILL WEAKEN LATER THIS MORNING AND THEN INTENSIFY THIS AFTENOON. FOR NOW...WILL GO WITH SLOWING AND WEAKENING. TIMING ON TAFS WAS ADJUSTED TO FIT THIS. OTHERWISE...FEW CHANGES TO PREVIOUS SET OF TAFS. && .PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 355 AM CDT SAT SEP 23 2006/ DISCUSSION... MORE ROUGH WEATHER IN STORE FOR TODAY...AS FRONT TO THE WEST OF THE AREA GAINS MOMENTUM. INTERACTION BETWEEN APPROACHING FRONT...OUTFLOW FROM PREVIOUS STORMS AND UPPER LEVEL ENERGY WILL ALLOW FOR CONTINUED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHWEST THIS MORNING. ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS LATER THIS MORNING...AND INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AS DAYTIME HEATING INTERACTS WITH MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES OVER THE REGION. TORNADO THREAT WILL BE A LITTLE LESS TODAY AND TONIGHT...BUT WIND AND HAIL POTENTIAL WILL BE A GREATER HAZARD. STRONG GRADIENT BETWEEN SURFACE LOW IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN CONUS WILL CREATE GUSTY WINDS THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR THIS REASON...WILL EXTEND A LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. FRONT LOOKS TO GET INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY TONIGHT. COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN THIRD OF THE FORECAST AREA LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. FRONT WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA SUNDAY MORNING...WITH ANY LINGERING PRECIP COMING TO AN END BY THE AFTERNOON. IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONTAL PASSAGE...COOLER AIRMASS WILL BE USHERED INTO THE REGION. HIGH PRESSURE WILL PASS THROUGH IN THE NORTHWESTERLY UPPER FLOW. THIS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL THROUGH MUCH OF THE NEXT WEEK. RETURN FLOW WILL SET UP AROUND WEDNESDAY...AS THE HIGH MOVES TO THE SOUTHEAST OF ARKANSAS...AND ANOTHER FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. THIS NEXT SYSTEM WILL BRING ABOUT ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION. NO CHANGES MADE TO THE FORECAST BEYOND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT SUNDAY FOR ARZ003-ARZ004- ARZ005-ARZ006-ARZ007-ARZ012-ARZ013-ARZ014-ARZ015-ARZ016-ARZ021- ARZ022-ARZ023-ARZ024-ARZ025-ARZ030-ARZ031-ARZ032-ARZ033-ARZ034- ARZ037-ARZ038-ARZ039-ARZ040-ARZ041-ARZ042-ARZ043-ARZ044-ARZ045- ARZ046-ARZ047-ARZ052-ARZ053-ARZ054-ARZ055-ARZ056-ARZ057-ARZ062- ARZ063-ARZ064-ARZ065-ARZ066-ARZ067-ARZ068-ARZ069. && AVIATION...28
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 23, 10:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Stone | 23 min |
| Sep 22, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton | 51 min |
| Sep 22, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard, Stone | 35 min |
| Sep 22, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton | 64 min |
| Sep 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Sharp | 46 min |
| Sep 22, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Searcy | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard, Sharp | 48 min |
| Sep 22, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 29 min |
| Sep 22, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Stone | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone | 23 min |
| Sep 22, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Sharp | 38 min |
| Sep 22, 9:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 43 min |
| Sep 22, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 38 min |
| Sep 22, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 54 min |
| Sep 23, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 38 min |
| Sep 23, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 31 min |
| Sep 23, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 67 min |
| Sep 23, 6:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone | 89 min |
| Sep 23, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 51 min |
| Sep 23, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 63 min |
| Sep 23, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan | 50 min |
| Sep 23, 8:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 8:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Searcy | 27 min |
| Sep 23, 9:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Searcy, Van Buren | 44 min |
| Sep 23, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 29 min |
| Sep 23, 9:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Stone, Van Buren | 42 min |
| Sep 23, 9:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Izard | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Pope, Yell | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 10:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Marion | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 46 min |
| Sep 23, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 28 min |
| Sep 23, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 46 min |
| Sep 23, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Ouachita | 49 min |
| Sep 23, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 30 min |
| Sep 23, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 21 min |
| Sep 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 30 min |
| Sep 23, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 37 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.