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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 2, 2012Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2012, 12:01 AM CDT for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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: Aug 2, 2012, 12:01 AM CDT (05:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2012, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

County Faulkner County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:01 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 1252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 Aug 1, 9:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 9:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 11:45 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 7:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
728 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2012

ARZ003-012-013-020115-
BOONE AR-NEWTON AR-SEARCY AR-
728 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN BOONE...
SOUTHWESTERN SEARCY AND NEWTON COUNTIES UNTIL 815 PM CDT...

AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF LOST VALLEY SP...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LOST VALLEY SP...     JASPER...             WAYTON...
  VENDOR...             PONCA...              PELSOR...
  PARTHENON...          MT SHERMAN...         MT JUDEA...
  LURTON...             LOW GAP...            DEER...
  CROSSROAD...          COWELL...             COMPTON...
  BOXLEY...             TAYLOR MTN...         SUGAR TREE KNOB...

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3582 9290 3572 9310 3573 9323 3600 9345
      3602 9345 3613 9330
TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 320DEG 26KT 3600 9331

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Local storm report, Aug 1, 7:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 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.

&&

MCLAY

Local storm report, Aug 1, 8:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 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.

&&

MCLAY

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 8:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes 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

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Local storm report, Aug 1, 10:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 12:01 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
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, 1:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	31 min
Aug 2, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Van Buren	37 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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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.