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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 29, 20089 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this high wind warning at Jan 29, 2008, 1:07 PM CST for 9 counties in Arkansas. 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
Jan 29, 2008, 1:07 PM CST (19:07 UTC)
Expired
Jan 29, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR

Counties Baxter County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Marion County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2008-01-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 469 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2008-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 317 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
317 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
3.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Jan 29, 11:26 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 11:26 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 29, 10:40 AM CSTWind AdvisoryLZKArkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more10 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Arkansas, 2008Every high wind warning in 2008

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.