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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 30, 2013Johnson County, Newton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2013, 2:54 AM CDT for Johnson County, Newton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 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: May 30, 2013, 2:54 AM CDT (07:54 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2013, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Johnson County, AR, Newton County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 May 30, 12:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 12:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 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
May 29, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	30 min
May 30, 3:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	45 min
May 30, 3:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	44 min
May 30, 11:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	31 min
May 30, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	45 min
May 30, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Scott, Yell	46 min
May 30, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Johnson, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy	44 min
May 30, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Searcy and 2 more	48 min
May 30, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott	44 min
May 30, 1:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LZK	Baxter, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 17 more	53 hr
May 30, 2:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	29 min
May 30, 2:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter, Searcy	44 min
May 30, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	41 min
May 30, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	52 min
May 30, 2:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Yell	44 min
May 30, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike	41 min
May 30, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	51 min
May 30, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Sharp	28 min
May 30, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike	41 min
May 30, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Sharp and 1 more	45 min
May 30, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry	42 min
May 30, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	43 min
May 30, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry	43 min
May 30, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	32 min
May 30, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Sharp	26 min
May 30, 3:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	41 min
May 30, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski	44 min
May 30, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln	39 min
May 30, 4:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	38 min
May 30, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Stone	50 min
May 30, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	32 min
May 30, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Saline	49 min
May 30, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk	41 min
May 30, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk	35 min
May 30, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln	50 min
May 30, 5:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Saline	3 hr
May 30, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott	36 min
May 30, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Yell	34 min
May 30, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	31 min
May 30, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk	43 min
May 30, 5:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Pike, Polk, Scott and 1 more	2 hr
May 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	52 min
May 30, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk	23 min
May 30, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	52 min
May 30, 5:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	3 hr
May 30, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	38 min
May 30, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	44 min
May 30, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike, Polk	51 min
May 30, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	46 min
May 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring, Perry and 3 more	4 hr

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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.