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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 21, 2008Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2008, 8:08 PM CST for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 37 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: Feb 21, 2008, 8:08 PM CST (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 2008, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pike County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 442 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 Feb 21, 5:40 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 5:40 PM CST, 2 hours 28 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
Feb 21, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner	55 min
Feb 21, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White, Woodruff	30 min
Feb 21, 11:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha	23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2008 Every 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.