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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 4, 2012Woodruff County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2012, 5:49 AM CDT for Woodruff County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2012, 5:49 AM CDT (10:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2012, 6:35 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

County Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 4, 4:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 4:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 5:00 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:59 AM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 5:49 AM CDT, 0 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
Jun 3, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren	36 min
Jun 3, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	44 min
Jun 3, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Pope	25 min
Jun 3, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell	51 min
Jun 3, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton	46 min
Jun 3, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway	45 min
Jun 3, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski	35 min
Jun 3, 9:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	45 min
Jun 4, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard	49 min
Jun 4, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	37 min
Jun 4, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	29 min
Jun 4, 12:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Sharp	31 min
Jun 4, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Stone	39 min
Jun 4, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion	35 min
Jun 4, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Izard	44 min
Jun 4, 1:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Izard	43 min
Jun 4, 2:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	58 min
Jun 4, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	47 min
Jun 4, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Stone, White, Woodruff	54 min
Jun 4, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	44 min
Jun 4, 3:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	29 min
Jun 4, 4:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Stone	45 min
Jun 4, 4:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson	58 min
Jun 4, 4:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	46 min
Jun 4, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	46 min
Jun 4, 7:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan, Scott	47 min
Jun 4, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	46 min
Jun 4, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	38 min
Jun 4, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	48 min
Jun 4, 2:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	44 min
Jun 4, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	46 min
Jun 4, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	46 min
Jun 4, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	35 min
Jun 4, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring	27 min
Jun 4, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	32 min
Jun 4, 4:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	113 min
Jun 4, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	52 min
Jun 4, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln	49 min
Jun 4, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland, Lincoln	46 min
Jun 4, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas	28 min
Jun 4, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley	47 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.