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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 26, 2011Boone County, Marion County, Newton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT for Boone County, Marion County, Newton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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: Mar 26, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2011, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Boone County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR

The radar

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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 Mar 25, 10:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 10:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 26, 12:19 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 12:54 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 26, 12:56 AM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 12:57 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1257 AM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011

ARZ046-047-260640-
MONROE AR-PRAIRIE AR-
1257 AM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN PRAIRIE AND CENTRAL
MONROE COUNTIES UNTIL 145 AM CDT...

AT 1257 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECKERWOOD LAKE...OR 9
MILES NORTH OF STUTTGART...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...
ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  STUTTGART MUNI ARPT...                      ROE...
  PEPPERS LANDING...    DOBBS LANDING...      CLARENDON...
  ALFREY...             SLOVAK...             MONROE...
  KEEVIL...             DUNCAN...             BLACKTON...
  ABERDEEN...           VABY...               SMALE...
  RICH...               RED CAT LAKE...       RAINBOW LAKE...
  PEPPERS LAKE...

LAT...LON 3462 9105 3458 9159 3469 9164 3487 9109
      3475 9109 3473 9104
TIME...MOT...LOC 0557Z 253DEG 30KT 3463 9152

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 12:58 AM CDT, 2 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
Mar 26, 12:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	46 min
Mar 26, 12:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	31 min
Mar 26, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	43 min
Mar 26, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton, Searcy	47 min
Mar 26, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	32 min
Mar 26, 1:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	32 min
Mar 26, 2:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy, Stone	61 min
Mar 26, 2:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Sharp	58 min
Mar 26, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	47 min
Mar 26, 2:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson	29 min
Mar 26, 2:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne, Johnson, Pope, Van Buren	47 min
Mar 26, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	44 min
Mar 26, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas	31 min
Mar 26, 3:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence, Stone	63 min
Mar 26, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	48 min
Mar 26, 3:44 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Sharp, Stone	12 hr
Mar 26, 3:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope	2 hr
Mar 26, 4:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Prairie	30 min
Mar 26, 4:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	29 min
Mar 26, 4:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry	35 min
Mar 26, 4:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	31 min
Mar 26, 4:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	31 min
Mar 26, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	29 min
Mar 26, 5:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson	43 min
Mar 26, 5:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White	39 min
Mar 26, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	32 min
Mar 26, 5:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	31 min
Mar 26, 5:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	28 min
Mar 26, 6:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson, White, Woodruff	30 min
Mar 26, 6:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Woodruff	29 min
Mar 26, 6:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	30 min
Mar 26, 7:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	30 min
Mar 26, 4:02 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Sharp, Stone	19 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.