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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2012, 12:51 PM CDT for Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 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 30, 2012, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2012, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Desha County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 30, 12:42 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 12:42 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 9:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 925 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-311000- 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- 925 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS FIRING OFF OF REMNANTS OF CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AS THE MAIN THREAT. THE OVERALL SEVERE THREAT WILL BE ISOLATED. A COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY POSITIONED ACROSS NORTH ARKANSAS...WILL BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY TODAY BEFORE LIFTING NORTH AS A WARM FRONT OVERNIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE SEVERE THREATS...MAINLY OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE CLOSEST TO A NEW COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OUT OF EAST OKLAHOMA TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MORNING HOURS THURSDAY...BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD BY MID MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON AS A SECONDARY COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE STATE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE LIKELY. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY WITH THE FRONT...AND DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE FRONT WILL CLEAR THE STATE FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH PRECIPITATION TAPERING OFF FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. FRIDAY WILL BE COOL AND BREEZY...WITH TEMPS WARMING BACK UP THROUGH THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... COVERAGE OF ANY SEVERE STORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT 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. 51/61
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 11:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1104 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 ARZ045-046-056-057-064-301650- ARKANSAS AR-JEFFERSON AR-LINCOLN AR-LONOKE AR-PRAIRIE AR- 1104 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN PRAIRIE...SOUTHEASTERN LONOKE...NORTHERN LINCOLN...EASTERN JEFFERSON AND WESTERN ARKANSAS COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 AM CDT... AT 1101 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING AN AREA OF MODERATE TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY OVER JEFFERSON COUNTY...WITH THE STRONGEST STORM...3 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOCK AND DAM NUMBER 4...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF PINE BLUFF...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SMALL HAIL FROM PEA TO DIME SIZE IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH SOME HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WOODVILLE... RICHARDSON... MADDING... LITTLE BAYOU METO PARK... LINWOOD... LANGFORD... HUMPHREY... HUMNOKE... ENGLISH LAKE... ENGLAND... COTTONDALE... BRUMMITT... ALTHEIMER... WABBASEKA... TUCKER... TOMBERLIN... SWAN LAKE... SHERRILL... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3468 9160 3411 9148 3407 9194 3457 9202 TIME...MOT...LOC 1603Z 235DEG 17KT 3429 9192 59
Special weather statement, May 30, 11:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1129 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
ARZ033-034-045>047-301715-
LONOKE AR-MONROE AR-PRAIRIE AR-WHITE AR-WOODRUFF AR-
1129 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WOODRUFF...SOUTHERN WHITE...
PRAIRIE...NORTHERN MONROE AND NORTHEASTERN LONOKE COUNTIES UNTIL 1215
PM CDT...
AT 1126 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
AN AREA OF MODERATE TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY OVER LONOKE
COUNTY...AND WITH THE STRONGEST STORM NEAR WATERPROOF...OR 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LONOKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
SMALL HAIL FROM PEA TO DIME SIZE IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40
MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND
FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HAZEN... DES ARC... DE VALLS BLUFF...
BRINKLEY... WEST POINT... THURMAN...
PRYOR... PRAIRIE CENTER... PEPPERS LANDING...
PATTERSON... PARKERS CORNER... MCRAE...
MCCRORY... MCCREANOR... HURRICANE LAKE WMA...
HUNTER... HIGGINSON... HALLSVILLE...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 180 AND 218.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
LAT...LON 3499 9108 3499 9114 3492 9114 3491 9111
3487 9111 3486 9109 3474 9111 3464 9176
3519 9193 3531 9105
TIME...MOT...LOC 1628Z 239DEG 20KT 3490 9176
59Special weather statement, May 30, 11:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1145 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
ARZ045>047-056-057-064-065-301730-
ARKANSAS AR-DESHA AR-JEFFERSON AR-LINCOLN AR-LONOKE AR-MONROE
AR-PRAIRIE AR-
1145 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN PRAIRIE...SOUTHERN
MONROE...SOUTHEASTERN LONOKE...NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN...SOUTHEASTERN
JEFFERSON...EXTREME NORTHERN DESHA AND ARKANSAS COUNTIES UNTIL 1230
PM CDT...
AT 1143 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER JEFFERSON COUNTY AND MOVING
INTO ARKANSAS COUNTY...WITH THE STRONGEST 2 MILES NORTH OF WILSON
RESERVOIR...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF STUTTGART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
SMALL HAIL FROM PEA TO DIME SIZE IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40
MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND
FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
STUTTGART... CLARENDON... ULM...
STUTTGART MUNI ARPT... ST. CHARLES...
ROE... PALMER...
LITTLE BAYOU METO PARK... LANGFORD...
HOLLY GROVE... GILLETT... ENGLISH LAKE...
DOUGLAS... DE WITT... BRUMMITT...
ALMYRA... WEBER... VARNER...
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN!
LAT...LON 3433 9102 3433 9104 3428 9107 3426 9106
3406 9119 3402 9162 3464 9171 3474 9106
3457 9104 3448 9105 3447 9102 3435 9100
TIME...MOT...LOC 1644Z 242DEG 17KT 3440 9158
59Local storm report, May 30, 12:04 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1204 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1203 PM HAIL HAZEN 34.79N 91.57W
05/30/2012 E0.25 INCH PRAIRIE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
PEA SIZE HAIL FELL IN HAZEN AS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVED
THROUGH THE AREA.
&&
59Special weather statement, May 30, 12:21 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1221 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
ARZ034-046-047-301805-
MONROE AR-PRAIRIE AR-WOODRUFF AR-
1221 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN WOODRUFF...EASTERN
PRAIRIE AND NORTHERN MONROE COUNTIES UNTIL 100 PM CDT...
AT 1217 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
AN AREA OF MODERATE TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH THE STRONGEST 2
MILES SOUTH OF BUCKS LANDING...OR NEAR DE VALLS BLUFF...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
SMALL HAIL FROM PEA TO DIME SIZE IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40
MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND
FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DES ARC... DE VALLS BLUFF... BRINKLEY...
PEPPERS LANDING... HUNTER... HALLSVILLE...
DOBBS LANDING... BISCOE... ALLENDALE...
ALFREY... ZENT... MONROE...
KEEVIL... HILLEMAN... FARGO...
DAGMAR WMA... COTTON PLANT... BRASFIELD...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 196 AND 218.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN!
LAT...LON 3472 9104 3468 9150 3501 9159 3515 9106
3499 9105 3499 9114 3492 9114 3491 9111
3487 9111 3486 9109 3474 9110 3474 9105
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 247DEG 18KT 3485 9145
59Special weather statement, May 30, 12:41 PM CDT, 10 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 30, 4:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White | 46 min |
| May 30, 6:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton | 28 min |
| May 30, 7:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 46 min |
| May 30, 8:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 46 min |
| May 30, 8:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 29 min |
| May 30, 8:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 29 min |
| May 30, 9:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleburne | 44 min |
| May 30, 10:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 45 min |
| May 30, 10:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 61 min |
| May 30, 11:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 30, 11:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Prairie, Woodruff | 46 min |
| May 30, 11:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 45 min |
| May 30, 12:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Prairie | 44 min |
| May 30, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 34 min |
| May 30, 12:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Arkansas | 44 min |
| May 30, 1:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha | 32 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.