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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 404, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 1, 2013Scott County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2013, 5:57 PM CDT for Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 33 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
Sep 1, 2013, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 2013, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Scott County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 55 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2013-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 440 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2013-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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 Sep 1, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
220 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013

.DISCUSSION...

MAIN CONCERNS THIS FORECAST CYCLE ARE CHANCES OF CONVECTION FROM
THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. TODAY MAINLY WITH PULSE
STORM ENVIRONMENT...THEN A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MONDAY TO TUESDAY AS
IT SAGS THROUGH AR. TEMPS WILL GRADUALLY LOWER TO MUCH CLOSER TO
NORMAL VALUES BY MID WEEK...WITH LOWERING HEAT INDEX VALUES.

AFTERNOON CONVECTION OVER NORTHERN AR HAS SLOWLY WEAKENED AND
MOVED SE...BUT STILL SOME DEVELOP IS ON GOING. NOW PULSE STORMS
FORMING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AR...AND WILL SEE SOME ADDITIONAL
DEVELOPMENT WITH ANY OUT FLOW BOUNDARIES THIS AFTERNOON. THE UPPER
RIDGE HAS MOVED WELL TO THE WEST...NOW CENTERED MORE OVER THE
SOUTHERN ROCKIES...AND THE UPPER SHORT WAVE HAS HELPED DEVELOP
THE CONVECTION OVER NORTHERN AR...AS WELL AS IN PLACE MOIST AND
UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE HELPING. 12Z KLZK SOUNDING HAD A PRECIP WATER
VALUE OF 1.65 INCHES AND AN LI OF -7 AND CAPE 3200 J/KG. CLOUD
COVER HAS INCREASED OVER NORTHERN AR WITH THE CONVECTION AND HAS
KEPT TEMPS LOWER THAN THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS. HEAT INDEX VALUES
HAVE HELD TODAY FROM THE UPPER 90S TO LESS THAN 105 DEGREES.
OTHERWISE SEVERE STORM THREAT WILL REMAIN QUITE LOW AND VERY
ISOLATED...IF ANY DOES OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON.

&&

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT

WILL HAVE A SLIGHT TO A CHANCE OF CONVECTION IN THE LATE AFTERNOON
TO EVENING PERIOD DUE TO THE SHORT WAVE...AND PULSE STORM
POTENTIAL. ISOLATED HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH A STORM. THE
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
OVERNIGHT AND THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING ACROSS THE STATE...AS THE
FRONTAL BOUNDARY GRADUALLY SAGS THROUGH THE STATE. HAVE KEPT POP
FORECAST IN THE CHANCE CAT DUE TO LIMITED UPPER DYNAMICS AND
FORCING. OVERALL RAIN AMOUNTS WILL BE FROM A TENTH OF LESS TO
AROUND HALF AN INCH. SOME ISOLATED SPOTS WILL SEE AROUND ONE INCH
OR MORE IF A STRONG STORM HITS AN AREA...OR ANY TRAINING OF STORMS
SETS UP. PRECIP WATER VALUES WILL BE ABOVE ONE INCH AHEAD OF THE
FRONT...THEN LOWER QUICKLY WITH A DRIER AIR MASS FILTERING IN
BEHIND THE FRONT. SEVERE THREAT REMAINS ISOLATED. TEMPS WILL ALSO
GRADUALLY LOWER BACK TO NORMAL VALUES DUE TO CLOUDS AND RAIN
CHANCES INITIALLY...THEN BEHIND THE FRONT A COOLER AND DRY AIR
MASS WILL HELP TAKE TEMPS A BIT BELOW NORMAL THROUGH MID WEEK.

&&

.LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE CENTERED OVER THE ROCKIES TO BEGIN THE LONG
TERM PERIOD. THIS PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. SEASONAL
TEMPERATURES AND DRY CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO ARKANSAS DURING THE
PERIOD AND CHANCES WILL NOT BE GOOD FOR PRECIPITATION. HIGH
TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE 80S AND 90S AND LOWS WILL BE IN THE MID
AND UPPER 60S.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
BATESVILLE AR     72  93  65  88 /  30  10  10  10
CAMDEN AR         73  97  73  94 /  30  30  20  10
HARRISON AR       69  89  62  86 /  20  10  10  10
HOT SPRINGS AR    73  96  71  92 /  30  20  20  10
LITTLE ROCK   AR  73  97  71  91 /  30  20  20  10
MONTICELLO AR     74  97  73  94 /  30  30  20  10
MOUNT IDA AR      71  96  69  92 /  30  20  20  10
MOUNTAIN HOME AR  69  90  63  87 /  20  10  10  10
NEWPORT AR        73  93  66  88 /  30  10  10  10
PINE BLUFF AR     73  96  72  92 /  30  30  20  10
RUSSELLVILLE AR   72  96  67  91 /  30  20  10  10
SEARCY AR         72  94  68  89 /  30  20  10  10
STUTTGART AR      74  95  70  90 /  30  20  20  10
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...59 / LONG TERM...51
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 1, 5:00 AM CDT, 12 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-021000-
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-
500 AM CDT SUN SEP 1 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HOT TEMPERATURES ARE ONCE AGAIN EXPECTED ACROSS ARKANSAS TODAY AS
HIGH PRESSURE LINGERS OVER THE REGION. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES
WILL APPROACH 105 DEGREES FOR A FEW HOURS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE TODAY...
MAINLY OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THE ACTIVITY WILL DEVELOP
AHEAD OF A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH. WHILE
A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...THE CHANCES OF ORGANIZED SEVERE
WEATHER WILL REMAIN LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THE AFOREMENTIONED COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO DROP SOUTHWARD THROUGH
ARKANSAS MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. SMALL RAIN CHANCES WILL ACCOMPANY
THE FRONT. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO NORMAL LEVELS
BEHIND THE FRONT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND
CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 1:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSaline44 min
Sep 1, 2:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPulaski27 min
Sep 1, 2:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKYell27 min
Sep 1, 2:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland26 min
Sep 1, 3:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland32 min
Sep 1, 3:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPolk23 min
Sep 1, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope29 min
Sep 1, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell30 min
Sep 1, 4:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLogan32 min
Sep 1, 4:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKConway27 min
Sep 1, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Yell28 min
Sep 1, 4:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLogan32 min
Sep 1, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner30 min
Sep 1, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski31 min
Sep 1, 5:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKScott28 min
Sep 1, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Yell41 min
Sep 1, 6:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKScott32 min
Sep 1, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.