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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 488, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 22, 2008Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2008, 5:56 AM CDT for Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 22, 2008, 5:56 AM CDT (10:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2008, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Fulton County, AR, Sharp County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:57 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 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 1547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 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 Jul 22, 3:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 3:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 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
Jul 22, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	47 min
Jul 22, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk	23 min
Jul 22, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	38 min
Jul 22, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Perry, Pulaski, Saline	49 min
Jul 22, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	40 min
Jul 22, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Saline	47 min
Jul 22, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	49 min
Jul 22, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton	64 min
Jul 22, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring	48 min
Jul 22, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	44 min
Jul 22, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	53 min
Jul 22, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	52 min
Jul 22, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren	46 min
Jul 22, 3:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	3 hr
Jul 22, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	67 min
Jul 22, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland, Drew	38 min
Jul 22, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie	36 min
Jul 22, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	25 min
Jul 22, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Searcy, Stone	45 min
Jul 22, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	34 min
Jul 22, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas	30 min
Jul 22, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Pope, Yell	27 min
Jul 22, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	41 min
Jul 22, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Perry, Pulaski	36 min
Jul 22, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	23 min
Jul 22, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	33 min

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.