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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 17, 2013Drew County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2013, 2:18 PM CDT for Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 17, 2013, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2013, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Drew County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 1283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 16, 6:12 PM CDT, 20 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:12 PM CDT, 20 hours 6 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 16, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	40 min
Jun 16, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion, Searcy	30 min
Jun 16, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter, Marion	31 min
Jun 16, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	30 min
Jun 16, 9:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Stone	31 min
Jun 17, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Dallas	59 min
Jun 17, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	29 min
Jun 17, 2:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	46 min
Jun 17, 7:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	44 min
Jun 17, 11:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	27 min
Jun 17, 12:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	32 min
Jun 17, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew, Lincoln	45 min
Jun 17, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	46 min
Jun 17, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	31 min
Jun 17, 1:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton, Izard	46 min
Jun 17, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	28 min
Jun 17, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Woodruff	45 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.