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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2011, 10:21 AM CDT for Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2011, 10:21 AM CDT (15:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2011, 11:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
County Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 15, 6:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1021 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2011 ARZ023-024-031-032-151605- CLEBURNE AR-CONWAY AR-FAULKNER AR-VAN BUREN AR- 1021 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN VAN BUREN... SOUTHWESTERN CLEBURNE...NORTHEASTERN CONWAY AND NORTHERN FAULKNER COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 AM CDT... AT 1020 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES EAST OF SUNNYSIDE...OR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLINTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WHIPPLE... TWIN GROVES... QUITMAN... MIDDLETON... MALLET TOWN... LANTY... GUY... FAIRBANKS... DAMASCUS... CATHOLIC POINT... BETHLEHEM... SOUTHSIDE... MORGANTON... MARTINVILLE... FORMOSA... ENDERS... CENTER RIDGE... BIRDTOWN... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3555 9221 3526 9216 3528 9267 3544 9271 TIME...MOT...LOC 1521Z 265DEG 24KT 3538 9259 224
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Scott, Yell | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 12:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Searcy and 2 more | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 1:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Marion | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Pope, Searcy, Stone and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 1:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 2:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Searcy | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 2:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Garland, Montgomery | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 2:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Izard, Sharp | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 7:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Stone | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 10:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 11:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Van Buren | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 6:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jefferson | 48 min |
Nearby
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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.