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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 23, 2008Johnson County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2008, 6:19 PM CDT for Johnson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 26 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
Apr 23, 2008, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Johnson County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 2008-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1260 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 2008-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1260 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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 Apr 23, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
306 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...MOVING
OVER WESTERN TEXAS....IN A WELL DEFINED SUBTROPICAL JET. LOW LEVEL
SOUTHERLY FLOW AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM HAS PROMOTED THE DEVELOPMENT
OF CONVECTION ACROSS A GOOD PORTION KANSAS...THROUGH MUCH OF THE
SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS.

CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EASTWARD TONIGHT...AS FAVORABLE
SOUTHERLY FLOW PROMOTES LIFT AND MOISTURE TRANSPORT. THE
CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE EFFICIENT RAINFALL. FORECAST
STORM MOTION VECTORS SUGGEST THAT SOME OF THESE HEAVY RAINFALL
PRODUCING CELLS MAY AFFECT MOVE INTO NORTHWEST SECTIONS OVERNIGHT.
ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS ACROSS THIS AREA...ALONG WITH QPF SUGGEST
THE RAINFALL MAY BE EXCESSIVE.

RAINFALL SHOULD END FROM WEST TO EAST LATE THURSDAY. ANOTHER ROUND
OF CONVECTION IS EXPECTED FOR FRIDAY...HOWEVER THIS PRECIPITATION
EVENT SHOULD BE LESS INTENSE...AND WILL GIVER A SHORTER DURATION.

&&

.LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
THE GFS HAS COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT WITH THE ECMWF SOLUTION OVR
THE LAST FEW RUNS. AN UPR TROF AND ASSOCIATED CDFNT WL BE MOVG ACRS
AR SUN AND EARLY SUN NGT...WITH GOOD CHCS OF SHRA/TSRA EXPECTED.
NWLY FLOW ALOFT WL BRING A WEAK UPR IMPULSE THRU THE AREA TUE AND
TUE NGT...WITH JUST SOME INCRS IN MID AND HIGH LVL CLOUDS NOTED.

THE UPR FLOW WL FLATTEN OUT BY THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK AS THE
AFOREMENTIONED UPR TROF SHIFTS FURTHER EWD AND A NEW UPR LOW DROPS
INTO THE WRN STATES. SFC HIGH PRES WL SLIDE EWD ACRS AR MON AND THEN
SHIFT EWD. THIS WL ALLOW SLY FLOW TO RETURN TO THE FA STARTING TUE
AND CONTG THRU WED. LOW PRES WL BEGIN TO DVLP OVR THE PLAINS STATES
BY MIDWEEK AS WELL...BUT THE SYS SHLD RMN FAR ENOUGH TO THE W TO
RESULT IN A DRY FCST FOR MON THRU WED.
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
BATESVILLE AR     61  74  60  77 /  60  70  20  50
CAMDEN AR         63  77  62  80 /  60  70  20  50
HARRISON AR       60  73  59  73 /  70  70  10  50
HOT SPRINGS AR    62  76  62  78 /  70  80  10  50
LITTLE ROCK   AR  63  76  62  78 /  70  80  20  50
MONTICELLO AR     64  77  63  81 /  50  60  20  60
MOUNT IDA AR      62  75  62  77 /  80  80  10  50
MOUNTAIN HOME AR  60  73  59  75 /  60  70  20  50
NEWPORT AR        62  75  61  77 /  50  70  20  60
PINE BLUFF AR     64  77  63  79 /  60  70  20  60
RUSSELLVILLE AR   62  74  61  76 /  70  80  10  50
SEARCY AR         62  75  61  77 /  60  70  20  60
STUTTGART AR      64  76  62  79 /  60  70  20  60
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY
MORNING FOR BAXTER-BOONE-JOHNSON-LOGAN-MARION-NEWTON-POPE-SCOTT-
SEARCY-YELL.

&&

SHORT TERM...55 / LONG TERM...46

In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 5:42 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
542 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

ARZ021-030-232310-
JOHNSON-LOGAN-
542 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR JOHNSON AND LOGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 615
PM CDT...

AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAKE DARDANELLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

IF ON OR NEAR LAKE DARDANELLE...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE
INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE OUT TO
15 MILES FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU
ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER
NOW. DONT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM

TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING
AREA. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ADVISED TO EXPECTED REDUCED VISIBILTY DUE
TO THE VERY HEAVY RAIN.

57

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 2:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLZKBaxter, Marion19 hr
Apr 23, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton19 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.