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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 15, 2010White County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2010, 11:59 PM CDT for White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 15, 2010, 11:59 PM CDT (04:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2010, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon

County White County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 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 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 260 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2010-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1745 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2010-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 Jul 15, 6:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 6:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 5:00 AM CDT, 18 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT THU JUL 15 2010

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-161000-
ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-
CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-
INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE-
MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-
PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-
WOODRUFF-YELL-
500 AM CDT THU JUL 15 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A LARGE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL BRING
VERY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS TO ARKANSAS TODAY.

A HEAT ADVISORY HAS BEEN POSTED AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE 90S
THIS AFTERNOON. THIS COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL CREATE
DANGEROUS HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 105 DEGREES OR GREATER IN MOST
AREAS.

THE HIGH WILL BEGIN BUILDING TO THE WEST TOWARD THE ROCKIES TONIGHT.
A NORTHWEST WIND FLOW AROUND THE HIGH WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT TOWARD
ARKANSAS...WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN
AREAS TOWARD THE MISSOURI BORDER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON FRIDAY AS THE
FRONT CONTINUES SAGGING SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE REGION. A FEW STORMS
COULD BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN.

THE HIGH WILL REMAIN TO THE WEST THIS WEEKEND...AND THE FRONT MAY
MAKE IT INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BEFORE WASHING OUT. THE FRONT WILL
BRING SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR...AND HEAT ADVISORIES MAY NOT BE NECESSARY.

THE HIGH WILL HEAD BACK TO THE EAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE HIGH WILL
SET UP OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES BY THE
MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...AND OPPRESSIVE CONDITIONS MAY RETURN. ONCE THE
HIGH IS ESTABLISHED...RAIN CHANCES WILL BE MINIMAL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON FRIDAY AS A COLD FRONT BRINGS
A CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND
CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 7:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleburne, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Sharp, Stone2 hr
Jul 15, 8:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKNewton, Searcy119 min
Jul 15, 9:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKNewton3 hr
Jul 16, 3:55 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryLZKArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas and 14 more15 hr
Jul 16, 1:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKJohnson, Newton, Pope107 min
Jul 16, 3:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKWhite31 min
Jul 16, 4:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJackson57 min
Jul 16, 5:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLincoln31 min
Jul 16, 5:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLogan31 min
Jul 16, 5:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleburne26 min
Jul 16, 6:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPolk58 min
Jul 16, 6:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKDesha31 min
Jul 16, 6:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKArkansas31 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.