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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2008, 12:55 AM CDT for Montgomery County, Pike County, Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 30, 2008, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2008, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Mar 30, 12:20 AM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 12:20 AM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 22 min |
| Mar 30, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 7:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott, Yell | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 7:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | White | 25 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 9 days |
| Mar 30, 10:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Logan, Polk, Scott, Yell | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Prairie, White | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Sharp, White, Woodruff | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Garland and 15 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:26 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 17 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:26 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Lawrence, Randolph | 17 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:26 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Randolph | 17 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.