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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 498, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 9, 2012Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 9, 2012, 6:23 PM CST for Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 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: Dec 9, 2012, 6:23 PM CST (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Dec 9, 2012, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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
Dec 9, 2:10 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 715 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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 Dec 9, 5:54 PM CST, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 5:54 PM CST, 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 9, 3:00 PM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
300 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-101045-
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-
300 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FORMING AHEAD OF A COLD
FRONT THAT WAS WORKING ITS WAY SOUTH INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS. SOME OF
THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH
GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY CONCERN. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...AN ISOLATED TORNADO THREAT EXISTS.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

THE LINE OF STORMS WILL PUSH SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE STATE THIS
EVENING...WITH SEVERE WEATHER EXITING THE STATE DURING THE OVERNIGHT
HOURS. MUCH COLDER AIR WILL SURGE INTO THE STATE BEHIND THIS FRONT
LATE TONIGHT AND INTO MONDAY.

MOST OF THE MOISTURE WILL BE TO THE EAST BY THE TIME THE COLDEST AIR
ARRIVES. HOWEVER...AREAS ACROSS THE NORTH COULD SEE A BRIEF MIX WITH
OR CHANGE OVER TO SNOW LATE TONIGHT. EVEN SO...THE THREAT FOR ANY
WINTER WEATHER HAZARDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN LOW AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SEVERAL HOURS OF A LIGHT WINTRY MIX WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY MONDAY
AS COLDER AIR SURGES IN. WHILE THE COLDEST OF THE AIR WILL ARRIVE
AFTER THE BEST MOISTURE EXITS THE STATE...AREAS ALONG A LINE FROM
MURFREESBORO TO LITTLE ROCK TO AUGUSTA MAY SEE A BRIEF CHANGE
OVER TO WINTRY PRECIPITATION. HOWEVER...GROUND TEMPERATURES
SIMPLY REMAIN TOO WARM FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION.

ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS LATE IN THE
WEEK AND DRAG A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE STATE SATURDAY. THERE ARE
SOME INDICATIONS THIS SYSTEM COULD RESULT IN STRONG TO POSSIBLY
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE. WITH THE
SYSTEM CLOSE TO A WEEK OUT...IT WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NECESSARY ACROSS MUCH OF ARKANSAS
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 9, 5:10 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 9, 5:46 PM CST, 37 minutes before

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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
Dec 9, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	37 min
Dec 9, 6:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Woodruff	42 min
Dec 9, 6:48 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	3 hr
Dec 9, 6:50 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Woodruff	45 min
Dec 9, 7:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie	46 min
Dec 9, 7:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Prairie	31 min
Dec 9, 8:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	42 min
Dec 9, 8:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	29 min
Dec 9, 8:50 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Calhoun	30 min
Dec 9, 9:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	30 min

Nearby

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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.