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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2012, 6:24 PM CDT for Dallas County, Grant County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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
- May 29, 2012, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dallas County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 29, 6:18 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 6:18 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1135 AM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-301000- 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- 1135 AM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TONIGHT AND THEN DROP DOWN THROUGH WESTERN ARKANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SOME OF THE STORMS FROM TONIGHT COULD LINGER IN PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY MORNING. FROM WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF WEDNESDAY NIGHT... SCATTERED STORMS SHOULD AFFECT PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS. A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THURSDAY MORNING WILL LIKELY SEE SOME THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THESE STORMS WILL SLIDE TO THE SOUTHEAST...AFFECTING MANY PARTS OF ARKANSAS DURING THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... COVERAGE OF ANY SEVERE STORMS TONIGHT...WEDNESDAY...AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT WILL LIKELY BE TOO SMALL TO REQUIRE SPOTTER ACTIVATION. HOWEVER...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BECOME NECESSARY ON THURSDAY. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 28
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 430 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ARZ042-043-054-055-292200- GARLAND AR-GRANT AR-HOT SPRING AR-SALINE AR- 430 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN SALINE...EASTERN HOT SPRING...WESTERN GRANT AND EXTREME EASTERN GARLAND COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM CDT... AT 425 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLEARWATER LAKE...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MALVERN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MALVERN... TRASKWOOD... THIEL... ROCKPORT... PRATTSVILLE... POYEN... PERLA... MAGNET COVE... LONO... GLEN ROSE... GIFFORD... FENTER... STEPHENS LAKE... MALVERN MUNI ARPT... LENHAM... LANDERS... HARP... CLEARWATER LAKE... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 30 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 98 AND 108. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3435 9242 3415 9268 3445 9288 3454 9278 TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 325DEG 22KT 3443 9273 227
Local storm report, May 29, 5:37 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Logan | 31 min |
| May 29, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Yell | 30 min |
| May 29, 5:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Yell | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Saline | 31 min |
| May 29, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Grant | 30 min |
| May 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring | 30 min |
| May 29, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 32 min |
| May 29, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Hot Spring | 38 min |
| May 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Johnson | 31 min |
| May 29, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Dallas | 29 min |
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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.