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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 2008, 1:02 PM CST for Arkansas County, Monroe County, Prairie County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Jan 8, 2008, 1:02 PM CST (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2008, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Arkansas County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Prairie County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 8:34 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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 Jan 8, 11:54 AM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 11:54 AM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jan 8, 9:41 AM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 8, 2:50 AM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 8:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 8:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Garland, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 32 min |
| Jan 8, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski | 30 min |
| Jan 8, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Stone, Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 9:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Garland, Hot Spring, Pike | 52 min |
| Jan 8, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 11:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski | 39 min |
| Jan 8, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Lincoln, Ouachita | 47 min |
| Jan 8, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Desha, Drew and 3 more | 63 min |
| Jan 8, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Drew | 30 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.