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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 554, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2008, 6:53 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Polk County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 2, 2008, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2008, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Montgomery County, AR, Polk County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 Aug 2, 6:47 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:47 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 5:00 AM CDT, 13 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT SAT AUG 2 2008 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-031000- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 500 AM CDT SAT AUG 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE THE DOMINATE WEATHER FEATURE THROUGH TONIGHT WITH MORE HOT AND HUMID WEATHER EXPECTED. THE COMBINATION OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDICES IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE. ALSO...OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL NOT COOL OFF THAT MUCH...AND WILL NOT BRING MUCH RELIEF FROM THE HEAT. AS SUCH...A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL BUT THE FAR NORTHWEST COUNTIES. EVEN THOUGH THE FAR NORTHWEST COUNTIES ARE CURRENTLY NOT UNDER A HEAT ADVISORY...HEAT INDICES WILL STILL EXCEED THE CENTURY MARK THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN PARKED OVER THE AREA THROUGH MONDAY WITH THE DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY CONTINUING. THE HEAT ADVISORY CURRENTLY IN EFFECT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...AS HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REMAIN IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE HEAT ADVISORY WILL NEED TO BE EXTENDED BEYOND MONDAY AS THE HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA. SOME RELIEF IS SEEN TOWARDS THE MIDDLE TO THE END OF NEXT WEEK AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO FLATTEN OUT SOMEWHAT. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH NORTHERN ARKANSAS AROUND THURSDAY BUT WILL ONLY BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN WITH IT. WHILE RAINFALL WILL BE SCARCE...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO NEAR NORMAL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 56
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 2, 6:50 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Dallas, Hot Spring | 118 min |
| Aug 2, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas, Grant | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Ouachita | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Montgomery, Pike | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike, Polk | 48 min |
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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.