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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 613, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 27, 2008, 1:14 PM CST for 10 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 61 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
- Dec 27, 2008, 1:14 PM CST (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2008, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baxter County, AR, Conway County, AR, Logan County, AR, Marion County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 6:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 2:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Independence and 7 more | 53 min |
| Dec 27, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White | 46 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.