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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 451, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 7, 2012Independence County, Jackson County, Woodruff County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2012, 8:25 PM CDT for Independence County, Jackson County, Woodruff County, Arkansas. It was in force for 20 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 7, 2012, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2012, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 7, 8:28 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 59	Newport Air Industrial, AR
Sep 7, 8:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Amagon, AR	SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched 2 storm reports to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 3 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 7, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

512 
WUUS54 KLZK 080125
SVRLZK
ARC063-067-147-080145-
/O.NEW.KLZK.SV.W.0451.120908T0125Z-120908T0145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
825 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN INDEPENDENCE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL WOODRUFF COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 820 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS
  IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTH OF STRAWBERRY TO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  TUCKERMAN TO 3 MILES WEST OF GRUBBS TO 7 MILES WEST OF ALGOA...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NEWPORT...            TUCKERMAN...          SWIFTON...
  MCFADDEN...           JACKSONPORT...        GRUBBS...
  DIAZ...               ALGOA...              WELDON...
  STEGALL...            SHOFFNER...           POSSUM GRAPE...
  OLYPHANT...           MACKS...              KENYON...
  INGLESIDE...          HALE...               ERWIN...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN 
BATESVILLE AND NEWPORT. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE 
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3543 9136 3544 9135 3545 9145 3566 9139
      3589 9141 3590 9135 3587 9102 3536 9104
TIME...MOT...LOC 0125Z 281DEG 43KT 3585 9121 3576 9110
          3564 9105 3549 9117

$$

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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 Sep 7, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
630 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

.DISCUSSION...

UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW...

&&

.AVIATION...

STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SE THROUGH THE STATE THIS EVENING AND
OVERNIGHT...WITH SCT TO WIDESPREAD SHRA/TSRA EXPECTED. SOME OF
THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. BEHIND THE FRONT...NON-
THUNDERSTORM WINDS OF 12-20 KTS FROM THE NORTH ARE EXPECTED...WITH
GUSTS OVER 25 KTS POSSIBLE. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE FROM NW TO SE
TOMORROW MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HRS.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 348 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012/

SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT

COLD FRONT STRETCHES FROM CENTRAL ILLINOIS THROUGH MISSOURI...TO
NEAR TULSA. LINE OF SEVERE STORMS HAS DEVELOPED AHEAD OF THIS FRONT
ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI AND INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...WITH SEVERE
WINDS. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SEVERAL STORMS DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHERN
ARKANSAS...WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SOME LARGE HAIL.

TRICKY FORECAST IN TERMS OF RAINFALL CHANCES TONIGHT. SHORT TERM
MODELS ARE PICKING UP ON ACTIVITY ACROSS NORTHEAST ARKANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON...BUT ONE SOLUTION SHOWS THAT THE AREA GETS WORKED
OVER...AND LESSENS RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT.

HOWEVER...DUE TO THE STRENGTH AND DYNAMICS OF THIS FRONT...AND THE
HOT TEMPERATURES TODAY...WILL KEEP THE HIGHEST RAIN CHANCES ACROSS
THE NORTHERN AND NORTHEAST COUNTIES TONIGHT. AS FAR AS SEVERE
POTENTIAL...EXPECT STORMS TO CONVERGE INTO A LINE OR AT LEAST A
CLUSTER OF STORMS THIS EVENING...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL
THE CONCERNS.

MUCH OF THE RAINFALL WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BE BEHIND THE FRONT...AND
HAVE TIMED RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT AND WIND SHIFT TO
REACH NORTHERN ARKANSAS JUST BEFORE 7 PM...CENTRAL ARKANSAS 10 PM TO
MIDNIGHT...AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS MIDNIGHT TO 3 AM. MUCH OF THE
RAINFALL WILL BE OUT OF THE AREA BY SUNRISE SATURDAY MORNING...BUT
DID KEEP SMALL RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST FOR A FEW HOURS.

MUCH COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL FOLLOW FRONT FOR THE REST OF THE
SHORT TERM...WITH TEMPERATURES MORE FALL LIKE THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

THERE WILL BE BREEZY WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT SATURDAY...AND A LAKE
WIND ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED...BUT WILL WAIT FOR MORE DATA BEFORE
DECIDING ON ISSUANCE.

LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NOT MUCH CHANGE FOR THE EXTENDED. ON TUESDAY AN UPPER RIDGE WILL BE
TRANSITING THE CENTRAL CONUS ON THE WAY TO A FINAL RESTING PLACE
ALONG THE APPALACHIAN CHAIN BY THURSDAY. MEANWHILE UPPER TROUGHING
WILL DEVELOP OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. ACROSS ARKANSAS...A GENERAL
WARM UP WILL BE OBSERVED WITH HIGHS MAKING IT BACK INTO THE UPPER
80S TO LOW 90S BY WED/THU TIME FRAME. RAIN CHANCES HAVE BEEN KEPT
OUT OF THE FORECAST FOR THE TIME BEING...HOWEVER WITH UPPER
TROUGHING DEVELOPING TO THE NORTHWEST AND SLOWLY SHIFTING
SOUTHEAST...RAIN CHANCES WILL PROBABLY BE IN THE OFFING FOR
SATURDAY...OR JUST BEYOND THE CURRENT LONG TERM PERIOD.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
BATESVILLE AR     62  78  54  83 /  80   0   0   0
CAMDEN AR         69  82  56  84 /  70  20   0   0
HARRISON AR       57  75  52  81 /  90   0   0   0
HOT SPRINGS AR    64  80  56  84 /  60  10   0   0
LITTLE ROCK   AR  66  80  57  83 /  60  10   0   0
MONTICELLO AR     69  80  56  82 /  70  20   0   0
MOUNT IDA AR      64  80  54  84 /  50  10   0   0
MOUNTAIN HOME AR  58  78  52  82 /  90   0   0   0
NEWPORT AR        64  78  54  82 /  80  10   0   0
PINE BLUFF AR     68  79  57  82 /  70  20   0   0
RUSSELLVILLE AR   63  81  54  86 /  70   0   0   0
SEARCY AR         64  78  56  82 /  70  10   0   0
STUTTGART AR      66  78  56  81 /  60  10   0   0
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR ARKANSAS-BRADLEY-
CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEVELAND-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-GARLAND-GRANT-
HOT SPRING-JEFFERSON-LINCOLN-LONOKE-MONROE-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-
PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-WHITE-WOODRUFF.

&&

AVIATION...62

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 5:00 AM CDT, 15 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-081000-
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-
500 AM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL...EASTERN AND
SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO 110 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED
THIS AFTERNOON.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE OVER ARKANSAS FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO
TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MAKES ITS WAY INTO THE STATE. THERE ARE
LIKELY TO BE AT LEAST A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...PRIMARILY OVER
THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN
SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...BUT THERE COULD BE SOME LARGE HAIL AS WELL.

STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH NORTHERN ARKANSAS BY MID TO LATE
AFTERNOON...THEN SPREAD TO CENTRAL ARKANSAS DURING THE EVENING.

SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE LATE NIGHT HOURS OVER
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...BUT CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER
SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT SOUTHERN ARKANSAS SATURDAY
MORNING. AFTER THAT...BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL AS COOLER...
DRIER AIR SPREADS ACROSS THE STATE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON
CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 7, 7:56 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
756 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0755 PM     TSTM WND GST     BATESVILLE              35.77N 91.62W
09/07/2012  M65 MPH          INDEPENDENCE       AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, Sep 7, 7:59 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
759 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0758 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BATESVILLE              35.77N 91.62W
09/07/2012                   INDEPENDENCE       AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            OFFICER IN BATESVILLE REPORTED EXTREME WINDS ALONG WITH
            TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.

&&

CDALTON

Local storm report, Sep 7, 8:04 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
804 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0803 PM     TSTM WND GST     SULPHUR ROCK            35.75N 91.50W
09/07/2012  E75 MPH          INDEPENDENCE       AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, Sep 7, 8:09 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
809 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0758 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BATESVILLE              35.77N 91.62W
09/07/2012                   INDEPENDENCE       AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AT THE BATESVILLE AIRPORT. A HANGAR
            WAS BLOWN INTO U. S. HIGHWAY 167...AND WAS BLOCKING
            TRAFFIC.

&&

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Local storm report, Sep 7, 8:20 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
820 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0743 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PLEASANT GROVE          35.82N 91.91W
09/07/2012                   STONE              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES AND POWERLINES REPORTED DOWN

&&

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Local storm report, Sep 7, 8:22 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
822 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0805 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 E OIL TROUGH          35.63N 91.41W
09/07/2012                   INDEPENDENCE       AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            THUNDERSTORM WINDS DOWNED TREES ALONG HIGHWAY 14.

0815 PM     TSTM WND DMG     NEWPORT                 35.63N 91.24W
09/07/2012                   JACKSON            AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            HIGH WINDS DOWNED POWER LINES IN TOWN WITH POWER OUTAGES
            REPORTED.

&&

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Marion and 5 more	51 min
Sep 7, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell	48 min
Sep 7, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Scott, Yell	46 min
Sep 7, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Stone, White	45 min
Sep 7, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry	39 min
Sep 7, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Pope and 3 more	52 min
Sep 7, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke and 2 more	66 min
Sep 7, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring	56 min
Sep 7, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln and 3 more	66 min
Sep 7, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita	40 min
Sep 7, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Drew	45 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.