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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 545, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2011, 3:28 PM CDT for Marion County, Searcy County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 13, 2011, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2011, 4:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Marion County, AR, Searcy County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 21.9
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 Jun 13, 3:04 PM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:04 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1025 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2011 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-141000- 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- 1025 AM CDT MON JUN 13 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A FRONT WILL REMAIN STALLED ACROSS NORTHEAST ARKANSAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS IN MISSOURI WILL TRACK ALONG THE FRONT...AND WILL AFFECT AREAS MAINLY NORTHEAST OF MOUNTAIN HOME...HEBER SPRINGS...SEARCY AND BRINKLEY. A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE IN NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE STATE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN. ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE...A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IN TEXAS WILL PROVIDE MOSTLY DRY AND HOT CONDITIONS. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S ARE EXPECTED. MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE AROUND 100 DEGREES IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN DOMINANT ON TUESDAY. IT WILL BE MOSTLY DRY AND HOT...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 100 DEGREES IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES. ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...A NEW COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION...WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST. SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...MAINLY OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THE FRONT WILL MOVE BACK TO THE NORTH BY THE UPCOMING WEEKEND... AND RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE. ANY STORMS WILL BE ISOLATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD REMAIN ISOLATED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GIVEN THIS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 59/46
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 157 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2011 ARZ024-131925- CLEBURNE AR- 157 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN CLEBURNE COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM CDT... AT 155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WOLF BAYOU...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MELROSE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HEBER SPRINGS... GREERS FERRY DAM... CONCORD... WILBURN... IDA... DRASCO... WOLF BAYOU... TUMBLING SHOALS... OLD HWY 25 REC AREA... MAGNESS LAKE... HEBER SPGS MUNI ARPT... FIVEMILE... DAM SITE MARINA... BULLARD LAKE... BANNER... LAT...LON 3548 9180 3548 9205 3570 9201 3570 9179 TIME...MOT...LOC 1857Z 000DEG 1KT 3564 9190 46
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:33 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 10:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, Woodruff | 6 days |
| Jun 13, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Woodruff | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 1:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleburne | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, White | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 2:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Stone | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Searcy, Stone | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, White | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Stone, Van Buren | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Marion | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha, Drew | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Drew | 38 min |
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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.