Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2008, 2:31 AM CDT for Baxter County, Izard County, Stone 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
- Jun 23, 2008, 2:31 AM CDT (07:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2008, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baxter County, AR, Izard County, AR, Stone County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 2107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 66 min |
| Jun 23, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion, Searcy | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Sharp | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 4:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.