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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 424, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 13, 2008Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2008, 5:57 PM CDT for Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 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: Jun 13, 2008, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Marion County, AR

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 9.8

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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 Jun 13, 2:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008

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

0425 PM     HAIL             CALAMINE                36.01N 91.40W
06/09/2008  E0.88 INCH       SHARP              AR   PUBLIC

0430 PM     TSTM WND GST     PRIM                    35.70N 92.12W
06/09/2008  E60 MPH          CLEBURNE           AR   PUBLIC

            WINDS WERE ESTIMATED AT 50 TO 60 MPH.

0430 PM     HAIL             JESSIEVILLE             34.70N 93.07W
06/09/2008  E0.88 INCH       GARLAND            AR   PUBLIC

0500 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HEBER SPRINGS           35.50N 92.04W
06/09/2008                   CLEBURNE           AR   PUBLIC

            WINDS WERE ESTIMATED AT 50 TO 60 MPH...WITH LARGE TREE
            LIMBS DOWNED.

0500 PM     HAIL             AMITY                   34.27N 93.46W
06/09/2008  E0.75 INCH       CLARK              AR   PUBLIC

0505 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PARON                   34.77N 92.75W
06/09/2008                   SALINE             AR   PUBLIC

            LARGE TREE LIMBS WERE DOWNED.

&&

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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
Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	52 min
Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	60 min
Jun 13, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	54 min
Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Searcy, Stone	50 min

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.