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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 705, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 24, 2011Cleburne County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2011, 1:21 PM CDT for Cleburne 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
Jul 24, 2011, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2011, 1:48 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Cleburne County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 2011-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2983 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 2011-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
2983 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 24, 12:36 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 12:36 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 5:00 AM CDT, 8 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT SUN JUL 24 2011

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-251000-
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 SUN JUL 24 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FORECAST AREA TODAY DUE TO
CONTINUED HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES
WILL BE IN THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100...AND HEAT INDEX VALUES OF
AROUND 105 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE SEEN ACROSS THE
STATE TODAY. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...A FEW
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE GREATEST
THREAT FROM ANY STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THE HOT AND HUMID WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST
WEDNESDAY. DURING THIS TIME AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN
THE MID TO UPPER 90S...WITH SOME LOCATIONS SEEING HIGHS OVER 100.
THIS WILL CREATE DANGEROUS HEAT CONDITIONS...AND AFTERNOON HEAT
INDEX VALUES WILL REACH AROUND 105 DEGREES AND ABOVE IN MANY
LOCATIONS ACROSS THE STATE EACH DAY.

ALSO...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING HOURS. WHILE
WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...SOME STORMS COULD
BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT.

A SLIGHT BREAK IN THE HEAT MAY BE SEEN BY THE END OF THE WORK WEEK
AS THE STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE MOVES EAST.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

&&

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 23, 7:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland28 min
Jul 24, 1:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPike44 min
Jul 24, 1:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Montgomery, Pike27 min
Jul 24, 1:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKVan Buren44 min
Jul 24, 1:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKWhite48 min
Jul 24, 1:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKWhite45 min
Jul 24, 1:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKIndependence48 min
Jul 24, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner, Van Buren, White45 min
Jul 24, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson28 min
Jul 24, 2:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKScott47 min
Jul 24, 2:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKWhite47 min
Jul 24, 2:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPolk44 min
Jul 24, 2:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJackson47 min
Jul 24, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk24 min
Jul 24, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Ouachita24 min
Jul 24, 3:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPolk31 min
Jul 24, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark38 min
Jul 24, 3:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKOuachita46 min
Jul 24, 3:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPolk45 min
Jul 24, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita34 min
Jul 24, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita19 min
Jul 24, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita31 min
Jul 24, 4:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKOuachita30 min
Jul 24, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas35 min
Jul 24, 4:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKOuachita32 min
Jul 24, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas14 min
Jul 24, 5:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKDallas30 min
Jul 24, 6:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLincoln29 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.