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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2012, 1:08 AM CDT for Cleburne County, Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 37 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
- Aug 2, 2012, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2012, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cleburne County, AR, Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Aug 2, 12:45 AM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 12:45 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 1, 7:34 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
734 PM CDT WED AUG 01 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0634 PM TSTM WND DMG VIOLA 36.40N 91.98W
08/01/2012 FULTON AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TRESS AND POWER LINES ARE DOWN. SOME POWER POLES WERE
SNAPPED. TIN ROOFING WAS REMOVED FROM SEVERAL
HOUSES...MTRESS AND POWER LINES ARE DOWN.
0647 PM TSTM WND DMG SALEM 36.37N 91.82W
08/01/2012 FULTON AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL POWER LINES AND POWER POLES WERE BLOWN DOWN. TIN
ROOFING WAS REMOVED FROM SEVERAL STRUCTURES ON THE WEST
SIDE OF SALEM.
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MCLAYLocal storm report, Aug 1, 8:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
806 PM CDT WED AUG 01 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0717 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 E ASH FLAT 36.23N 91.55W
08/01/2012 SHARP AR TRAINED SPOTTER
MULTIPLE TREES ARE DOWN WITH TREES REPORTED ON HOUSES AND
VEHICLES. NO INJURIES ARE BEING REPORTED AT THIS TIME.
POWER LINES AND POWER POLES WERE BLOWN DOWN.
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MCLAYSpecial weather statement, Aug 1, 8:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 807 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2012 ARZ016-025-034-020155- INDEPENDENCE AR-JACKSON AR-WOODRUFF AR- 807 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN WOODRUFF... SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON AND EASTERN INDEPENDENCE COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 803 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWARK...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWPORT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NEWPORT... MCFADDEN... JACKSONPORT... DIAZ... ALGOA... WELDON... SHOFFNER... PUMPKIN BEND... MACKS... ERWIN... BLACKVILLE... BEEDEVILLE... HOWARD LAKE... AUVERGNE... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3549 9104 3520 9105 3568 9148 3574 9136 TIME...MOT...LOC 0108Z 323DEG 29KT 3565 9136 51
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 15 min |
| Aug 1, 7:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Newton | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Sharp | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 8:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 48 min |
| Aug 1, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 12:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Faulkner | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 1:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Van Buren | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 1:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Stone | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 4:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 46 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.