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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2013, 5:56 PM CDT for Monroe County, Prairie County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Apr 27, 2013, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2013, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Monroe County, AR, Prairie County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 27, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 230 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2013 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS...WITH THE ATTENDANT SURFACE LOW NEAR MOUNT IDA AND HOT SPRINGS. OUT EAST FROM THE LOW IS THE WARM BOUNDARY...EXTENDING FROM BETWEEN LITTLE ROCK AND PINE BLUFF TO NEAR THE MEMPHIS METRO AREA. THE WARM BOUNDARY WILL MOVE ONLY SLIGHTLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AS THE LOW PRESSURE DRAGS EASTWARD ALONG IT AND PUSHES THE COLD FRONT THROUGH. THE WARM SECTOR OUT IN EASTERN/SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS HAS SEEN SUFFICIENT HEATING TODAY...WITH TEMPERATURES APPROACHING 80 DEGREES AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM. THUS...SHOWERS/STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS THE FRONT TRAVERSES THAT AREA. THERE COULD BE ISOLATED STRONG STORMS IN THE SOUTHEAST...AND IF THIS THREAT WERE TO MATERIALIZE...HAIL AND WIND WOULD BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. ANY LINGERING PRECIPITATION SHOULD COME TO AN END EARLY SUNDAY... AS HIGH PRESSURE PUSHES INTO THE REGION. THE HIGH WILL QUICKLY MOVE EAST ON MONDAY...WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS SETTING UP. THIS WILL BE CONDUCIVE TO AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S IN MUCH OF THE AREA...CONTINUING INTO TUESDAY. THE WARM AND DRY WEATHER...HOWEVER...WILL NOT LAST. && .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HAVE PRECIP CHANCES INCREASING AREAWIDE AS MOISTURE SURGES NORTH AHEAD OF A DEEPENING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH TO THE NW OVER THE ROCKIES. A COLD FRONT WILL BE DROPPING SOUTH FROM THE PLAINS AS THIS STRENGTHENING UPPER TROUGH GRADUALLY SHIFTS EAST INTO THE PLAINS. OVER TIME...THIS UPPER TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO DEEPEN SIGNIFICANTLY...DEVELOPING INTO A CLOSED UPPER LOW THAT WILL WILL WOBBLE SOMEWHERE OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS LATE NEXT WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND. THE TIMING OF THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE AND THE RESULTING WELL BELOW NORMAL TEMPS WILL DEPENDING ON HOW STRONG THIS UPPER LOW BECOMES...AND WHERE IT WILL END UP. AT THIS TIME...HAVE THE FROPA OCCURRING LATE WED NIGHT THROUGH THU...BUT DO EXPECT CONTINUING REFINEMENTS WITH THE FROPA TIMING OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS THE LATEST DATA IS ANALYZED. ONE THING IS BECOMING MORE APPARENT...AND THAT IS THAT BELOW NORMAL TEMPS ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE LIKELY...WITH POTENTIAL FOR TEMPS TO BE AT LEAST 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL BY LATE NEXT WEEK ACROSS AR. AGAIN...MANY DETAILS ARE STILL UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME...SO CONTINUE TO REFER TO LATEST FORECAST IN THE COMING DAYS FOR THE EXTENT OF THE COOLER TEMPS AND PRECIP POTENTIAL WITH THIS LATE NEXT WEEK STORM SYSTEM. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 49 71 53 80 / 40 20 0 0 CAMDEN AR 52 76 53 83 / 30 10 0 0 HARRISON AR 45 70 53 81 / 20 10 0 0 HOT SPRINGS AR 50 74 54 81 / 20 10 0 0 LITTLE ROCK AR 52 74 55 81 / 30 10 0 0 MONTICELLO AR 57 76 54 82 / 40 20 0 0 MOUNT IDA AR 45 75 51 81 / 20 10 0 0 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 47 70 52 82 / 30 10 0 0 NEWPORT AR 50 71 52 81 / 40 20 0 0 PINE BLUFF AR 56 74 55 81 / 40 20 0 0 RUSSELLVILLE AR 47 75 52 82 / 20 10 0 0 SEARCY AR 50 71 50 80 / 40 20 0 0 STUTTGART AR 53 72 55 80 / 40 20 0 0 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...57 / LONG TERM...62
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 300 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2013 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-281030- 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 CDT SAT APR 27 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...WITH SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF IT. MEANWHILE...A COLD FRONT WAS BEGINNING TO PUSH EAST OUT OF THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE STATE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THIS COLD FRONT MOVES EAST INTO WARM MOIST AIR OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK SOME OF THIS STORMS MY BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. THE HIGHEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR ARKADELPHIA...TO LITTLE ROCK...TO AUGUSTA. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL..WITH LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. HOWEVER...WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED BY MID WEEK AS THE NEXT COLD FRONT APPROACHES ARKANSAS...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS THIS EVENING, && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 27, 2:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 3:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 6:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Logan | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 11:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Lawrence | 22 days |
| Apr 27, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Prairie | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Prairie | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 33 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.