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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2012, 4:10 PM CDT for Independence County, Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Jul 3, 2012, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Independence County, AR, Sharp County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 597 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
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 Jul 3, 2:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 457 AM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-041000- 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- 457 AM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT DROUGHT CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO WORSEN. VEGETATION HAS DRIED OUT IN MANY AREAS...AND WILDFIRES HAVE BECOME COMMON. THERE IS AN EXTREME WILDFIRE DANGER...AND MOST COUNTIES HAVE BURN BANS IN PLACE. ANY FIRE THAT STARTS COULD SPREAD RAPIDLY AND QUICKLY GET OUT OF CONTROL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES...THERE ARE SIGNS THAT A DOMINANT RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE MAY DRIFT TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF ARKANSAS. THIS WOULD ALLOW ADDITIONAL MOISTURE TO FLOW INTO THE STATE FROM THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES...WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS REMAINING POSSIBLE. WHATEVER RAIN MATERIALIZES...IT WILL LIKELY HAVE LITTLE IMPACT ON THE ONGOING DROUGHT. BURNING OF ANY KIND...INCLUDING FIREWORKS... IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 11:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1139 AM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012 ARZ016-025-031725- INDEPENDENCE AR-JACKSON AR- 1139 AM CDT TUE JUL 3 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL JACKSON AND CENTRAL INDEPENDENCE COUNTIES UNTIL 1230 PM CDT... AT 1136 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF OIL TROUGH...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BATESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OIL TROUGH... NEWARK... MAGNESS... JACKSONPORT... THIDA... SULPHUR ROCK... ROSIE... MACKS... HUFF... GRAY... MT ZION... LAKE WHITSTINE... HUTSON... HOWARD LAKE... BAILEY... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3583 9136 3556 9125 3553 9157 3570 9163 TIME...MOT...LOC 1639Z 250DEG 12KT 3566 9147 BJS
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 3, 11:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Marion | 28 min |
| Jul 3, 1:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Stone | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 28 min |
| Jul 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 29 min |
| Jul 3, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Drew | 28 min |
| Jul 3, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Drew | 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.