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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this freeze warning at Oct 26, 2012, 2:02 PM CDT for 14 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Oct 28, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 2012, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 28, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2012, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
Counties Baxter County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Marion County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, White County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 366 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 26, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 3:58 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Independence and 7 more | 28 hr |
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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.