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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 24, 2007Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this red flag warning at Feb 24, 2007, 4:38 AM CST for Pike County, Arkansas. It took effect at Feb 24, 2007, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2007, 4:38 AM CST (10:38 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 24, 2007, 1:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 24, 2007, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

County Pike County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:39 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 2134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Feb 24, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour 8 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
Feb 23, 9:22 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more	45 hr
Feb 24, 4:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	20 min
Feb 24, 8:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White, Woodruff	35 min
Feb 24, 11:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan	33 min
Feb 24, 11:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas	47 min
Feb 24, 11:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	33 min
Feb 24, 11:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas	29 min
Feb 24, 11:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	30 min
Feb 24, 11:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Saline	51 min
Feb 24, 12:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope, Van Buren	39 min
Feb 24, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Lincoln	41 min
Feb 24, 1:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner	25 min
Feb 24, 1:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Bradley	38 min
Feb 24, 2:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Drew	28 min
Feb 24, 2:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha, Lincoln	20 min
Feb 24, 2:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha	33 min
Feb 24, 3:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Bradley	40 min
Feb 24, 3:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Drew	31 min
Feb 24, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	39 min
Feb 24, 3:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lincoln	37 min
Feb 24, 4:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha	38 min
Feb 24, 4:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Drew	49 min
Feb 24, 4:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	32 min
Feb 24, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha	39 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.