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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 593, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 18, 2011Logan County, Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2011, 10:18 AM CDT for Logan County, Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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 18, 2011, 10:18 AM CDT (15:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2011, 10:45 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Logan County, AR, Yell County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 331 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2011-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2509 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2011-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2509 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-233 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 8:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Yell25 min
Jun 18, 8:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Izard, Stone25 min
Jun 18, 8:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSharp43 min
Jun 18, 8:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp26 min
Jun 18, 10:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLogan44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011

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.