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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 2, 2008Desha County, Drew County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2008, 8:01 PM CDT for Desha County, Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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 2, 2008, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2008, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 2, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 2, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 4:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 2:01 PM CDT, 6 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
201 PM CDT FRI MAY 02 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1140 AM     TORNADO          2 WNW HENSLEY           34.51N 92.23W
05/02/2008                   PULASKI            AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN THE AREA. ONE DEATH WAS
            REPORTED ON HENSLEY LOOP ROAD.

&&

55

Local storm report, May 2, 2:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
206 PM CDT FRI MAY 02 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1140 AM     TORNADO          2 WNW HENSLEY           34.51N 92.23W
05/02/2008                   PULASKI            AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            *** 1 FATAL *** A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN THE AREA. ONE
            DEATH WAS REPORTED ON HENSLEY LOOP ROAD.

&&

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Local storm report, May 2, 3:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 2, 3:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	65 min
May 2, 8:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	63 min
May 2, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	36 min
May 2, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	36 min
May 2, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	51 min
May 2, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2008 Every 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.