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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2007, 5:30 PM CDT for Drew 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
- May 3, 2007, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Drew County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 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 May 3, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 300 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT UPPER TROF MOVING ACROSS OKLAHOMA WILL WEAKEN AND MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS FRIDAY MORNING. MOISTURE CONTINUES TO FLOW INTO THE AREA AT LOWER LEVELS AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM AND THIS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT BUT WILL BECOME DISRUPTED AS THE TROF MOVES ACROSS ON FRIDAY. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEASTERN TEXAS HAS PERSISTED THROUGH THE DAY AND EXPECT THIS TO MOVE INTO THE AREA TONIGHT AS THE UPPER TROF DRAWS CLOSER. THUS WILL KEEP 70 PERCENT POPS GOING FOR TONIGHT WITH FAIRLY GOOD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF HALF AN INCH TO AN INCH IN THE SOUTH. SOME LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE WHERE MESO BOUNDARIES CAN INTERACT. WILL NEED TO WATCH A FEW COUNTIES IN THE NORTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST WHERE HEAVY RAINS FELL LAST NIGHT AND EARLIER TODAY FOR FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL IF MORE HEAVY RAINS CAN MOVE INTO THOSE AREAS BUT CONFIDENCE IN THIS HAPPENING IS NOT ENOUGH TO WARRENT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH. RAIN SHOULD DECREASE FRIDAY AS THE TROF MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. WENT WITH CHANCE POPS IN MOST AREAS BUT KEPT LIKELY POPS GOING IN THE EAST IN THE MORNING. BY MIDDAY...HAVE POPS INTO SLIGHT CHANCE RANGE IN MOST AREAS WITH CHANCE IN THE EAST THEN MAINTAIN SMALL POPS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON IN THE EVENT LEFT OVER MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY RESULTING FROM HEATING FROM DECREASING CLOUDS CAN GET SOME CONVECTION GOING. THE UPPER TROF WILL BE TO THE EAST OF THE AREA BY FRIDAY EVENING AND DROPPED ALL MENTION OF RAIN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT FIGURING THAT ANY AFTERNOON CONVECTION WILL DISSIPATE FROM LOSS OF HEATING. UPPER RIDGE WILL SET UP OVER THE AREA FOR THE WEEKEND AND POSSIBLY INTO NEXT WEEK WHILE A STRONG UPPER TROF DIGS INTO THE SOUTHWEST. MIN TEMPS WILL MAINLY BE IN THE LOWER HALF OF THE 60S THROUGH THE PERIOD. MAXES WILL VARY DEPENDING ON CLOUD COVER. SATURDAY SHOULD BE THE WARMEST DAY WITH MID AND UPPER 80S IN MOST AREAS. FRIDAY WILL LIKELY SEE THE HIGHEST MAXES IN THE SOUTHWEST WHERE CLOUDS HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF BREAKING OUT WITH THE COOLEST MAXES IN THE NORTHEAST. && .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY EVENTUALLY THE TROF WILL MOVE OUT TO THE NORTHEAST AND THE RIDGE WILL BREAK DOWN SOMEWHAT WHICH MAY ALLOW MOISTURE TO MOVE IN AND BRING MORE CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. TIMING OF ALL THIS IS QUITE UNCERTAIN BUT BASED ON MODEL TRENDS WILL CONTINUE WITH SMALL POPS BEGINNING MONDAY AND INCREASING BY MIDWEEK. DID ADJUST POPS FOR TUESDAY WITH 20 PERCENT IN SOUTH TO 30 PERCENT IN NORTH AND WEST. DOES APPEAR NORTHERN AND WESTERN AREAS WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE FOR ANY PRECIP WITH THIS PATTERN. TEMPS WILL STAY RATHER PERSISTENT WITH MINS MOSTLY IN THE LOWER HALF OF THE 60S AND MAXES IN THE UPPER 70S TO MID 80S. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 62 78 63 85 / 70 50 10 10 CAMDEN AR 65 83 64 87 / 70 40 10 10 HARRISON AR 60 79 63 85 / 70 30 10 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 64 82 64 87 / 70 40 10 10 LITTLE ROCK AR 64 81 64 87 / 70 40 10 10 MONTICELLO AR 65 82 64 88 / 70 50 10 10 MOUNT IDA AR 64 83 64 87 / 70 30 10 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 60 78 63 85 / 70 40 10 10 NEWPORT AR 62 78 64 85 / 70 60 10 10 PINE BLUFF AR 64 82 65 87 / 70 50 10 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 63 81 64 88 / 70 30 10 10 SEARCY AR 63 80 64 86 / 70 50 10 10 STUTTGART AR 64 81 65 87 / 70 50 10 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 29
Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 12:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 66 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.