Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 2008, 9:15 AM CST for Faulkner County, Perry County, Pulaski 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
- Jan 8, 2008, 9:15 AM CST (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2008, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Faulkner County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pulaski County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 8:34 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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 Jan 8, 9:00 AM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 9:00 AM CST, 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 8, 5:00 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CST TUE JAN 8 2008 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-091100- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 500 AM CST TUE JAN 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO ADVANCE ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS AT THIS TIME. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO OCCURRING OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE BUT ARE MUCH MORE SCATTERED IN NATURE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT THAT IS FINALLY STARTING TO MAKE SOME EASTWARD PROGRESS AFTER REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY MOST OF THE NIGHT. A SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE HAS BEEN ONGOING MOST OF THE NIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BUT THE ORIENTATION OF THE FRONT AND THE UPPER WINDS KEPT THE SEVERE WEATHER AT BAY ACROSS THE LITTLE ROCK FORECAST AREA. ITS NOT TO SAY THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS THIS MORNING AS THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM. HOWEVER...THE THREAT OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER HAD DIMINISHED GREATLY OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE AS WINDS CONTINUE TO INCREASE WITH HEIGHT WHILE TURNING AND THIS WILL CAUSE STORMS TO ROTATE. DAMAGING WINDS COULD OCCUR AS WELL. THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS THROUGH ARKANSAS TUESDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ...WITH GOOD CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION IN MOST AREAS. A SECOND ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY. THE FRONT WILL NOT ARRIVE IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE UNTIL LATER IN THE DAY. THE BEST CHANCES OF SEEING SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEWPORT TO PINE BLUFF TO SMACKOVER. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERN AND WHILE THE TORNADO THREAT IS NOT AS GREAT AS THE PREVIOUS DAY...ISOLATED TORNADOES CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. THE FRONT WILL EXIT THE STATE TO THE EAST BY TUESDAY EVENING WITH THE PRECIPITATION ENDING. BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TODAY...WITH SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH. THIS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS ON AREA BODIES OF WATER. THE WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE WEST AS THE COLD FRONT PASSES... AND THEN TO THE NORTHWEST. A LAKE WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THE DAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER WEAK SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA BY THURSDAY. THE SYSTEM WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS BUT WILL NOT BE NEARLY AS STRONG AS THE SYSTEM THAT CAME THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY. THE UPPER LEVEL WIND PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO BUCKLE TOWARDS THE END OF THE WEEK WITH A NORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW EXPECTED. THIS WILL ALLOW MODIFIED POLAR AIR TO RETURN TO THE REGION WITH TEMPERATURES COOLING OFF CONSIDERABLY AND LIKELY FALLING BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TUESDAY AFTERNOON WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS POSSIBLE. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 56
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2:50 AM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 8:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 8:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Garland, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 32 min |
| Jan 8, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Stone, Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 9:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Hot Spring, Pike | 52 min |
| Jan 8, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 11:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski | 39 min |
| Jan 8, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Lincoln, Ouachita | 47 min |
| Jan 8, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 1:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie | 28 min |
| Jan 8, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Desha, Drew and 3 more | 63 min |
| Jan 8, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Drew | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2008Every severe thunderstorm 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.