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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 24, 2009Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this winter storm warning at Dec 24, 2009, 12:22 PM CST for Marion County, Arkansas. It took effect at Dec 24, 2009, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 hr. 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 24, 2009, 12:22 PM CST (18:22 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 24, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 25, 2009, 3:56 AM CST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

County Marion County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 7:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Garland, Pulaski, Saline	4 hr
Dec 23, 9:27 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Pike	5 hr
Dec 23, 10:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita	59 min
Dec 23, 11:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Garland, Pulaski, Saline	4 hr
Dec 23, 11:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	12 hr
Dec 24, 12:01 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, Monroe and 3 more	4 hr
Dec 24, 2:34 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita, Pike	4 hr
Dec 24, 3:22 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Conway, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Pulaski, Saline and 1 more	6 hr
Dec 24, 3:59 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, Prairie and 4 more	6 hr
Dec 24, 4:01 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	LZK	Baxter, Conway, Garland, Marion, Perry, Pike	8 hr
Dec 24, 4:49 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	38 hr
Dec 24, 6:34 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Grant and 5 more	4 hr
Dec 24, 7:45 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Perry	4 days
Dec 24, 7:50 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Yell	72 hr
Dec 24, 8:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln	47 min
Dec 24, 8:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln	37 min
Dec 24, 9:10 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Ashley, Bradley, Cleveland, Drew	11 days
Dec 24, 9:19 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	23 hr
Dec 24, 9:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	23 hr
Dec 24, 9:43 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson and 10 more	4 hr
Dec 24, 9:49 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 4 more	4 hr
Dec 24, 10:13 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence and 14 more	4 hr
Dec 24, 10:45 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Grant and 3 more	3 hr
Dec 24, 12:09 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	3 days
Dec 24, 12:22 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LZK	Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Fulton, Independence, Izard and 4 more	18 hr
Dec 24, 2:05 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas and 22 more	4 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Arkansas, 2009 Every winter storm warning in 2009

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.