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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 857, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 24, 20117 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2011, 7:45 AM CDT for 7 counties in 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
Aug 24, 2011, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2011, 8:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Faulkner County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:46 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2011-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1956 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2011-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
1956 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Aug 23, 6:34 PM CDT, 13 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 6:34 PM CDT, 13 hours 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 3:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSharp46 min
Aug 24, 3:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMarion45 min
Aug 24, 4:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSharp47 min
Aug 24, 4:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBaxter29 min
Aug 24, 5:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBaxter47 min
Aug 24, 8:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKArkansas, Jefferson, Monroe42 min
Aug 24, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski20 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.