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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 565, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 3, 2008Garland County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2008, 3:54 PM CDT for Garland County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 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 3, 2008, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2008, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2008-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 397 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2008-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
397 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-465 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1402 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.4

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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 Aug 2, 6:47 PM CDT, 21 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:47 PM CDT, 21 hours 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk25 min
Aug 2, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk45 min
Aug 2, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha28 min
Aug 2, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha52 min
Aug 3, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, White24 min
Aug 3, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White36 min
Aug 3, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White31 min
Aug 3, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski32 min
Aug 3, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite43 min
Aug 3, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley39 min
Aug 3, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike50 min
Aug 3, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Desha66 min
Aug 3, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk29 min
Aug 3, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha, Drew39 min
Aug 3, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2008Every 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.