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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 412, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 11, 2013Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2013, 3:21 PM CDT for Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 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 11, 2013, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Yell County, AR

The radar

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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 11, 2:43 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 2:43 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 11, 5:00 AM CDT, 10 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 11, 2:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
215 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

ARZ007-014>016-111940-
INDEPENDENCE AR-IZARD AR-SHARP AR-STONE AR-
215 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME EASTERN STONE...
SOUTHWESTERN SHARP...SOUTHEASTERN IZARD AND NORTHWESTERN INDEPENDENCE
COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM CDT...

AT 211 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
A THUNDERSTORM WAS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CUSHMAN...
OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BATESVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAIN.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SIDNEY...             MT PLEASANT...        CUSHMAN...
  CROKER...             SANDTOWN...           LAFFERTY...
  JAMES...

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

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN!

LAT...LON 3592 9193 3606 9174 3590 9149 3578 9172
TIME...MOT...LOC 1915Z 139DEG 8KT 3591 9172

226

Special weather statement, Sep 11, 2:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
216 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

ARZ016-024-033-111940-
CLEBURNE AR-INDEPENDENCE AR-WHITE AR-
216 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN WHITE...SOUTHERN
INDEPENDENCE AND EASTERN CLEBURNE COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM CDT...

AT 211 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
A THUNDERSTORM WAS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 5 MILES WEST OF PLEASANT
PLAINS...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF BATESVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAIN.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PLEASANT PLAINS...    ROOSEVELT...          HUTCHINSON...
  HICKORY FLAT...       GRAY...

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

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN!

LAT...LON 3561 9192 3570 9166 3555 9154 3545 9175
TIME...MOT...LOC 1916Z 123DEG 3KT 3557 9172

226

Special weather statement, Sep 11, 2:28 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
228 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

ARZ032-033-111950-
FAULKNER AR-WHITE AR-
228 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME WESTERN WHITE AND EASTERN
FAULKNER COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM CDT...

AT 225 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
A THUNDERSTORM WAS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR ENOLA...OR 17 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CONWAY.  THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAIN.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MT VERNON...          ENOLA...              BARNEY...

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

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN!

LAT...LON 3518 9228 3531 9218 3521 9208 3512 9215
TIME...MOT...LOC 1926Z 127DEG 2KT 3521 9220

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Special weather statement, Sep 11, 3:15 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
315 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

ARZ067-112040-
CALHOUN AR-
315 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN CALHOUN COUNTY UNTIL
345 PM CDT...

AT 312 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILO...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF HAMPTON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAIN.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HARRELL...            HAMPTON MUNI ARPT...  ARTESIAN...

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

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN!

LAT...LON 3337 9257 3359 9243 3351 9232 3350 9231
      3349 9232 3347 9232 3342 9234 3336 9238
      3332 9238
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 113DEG 9KT 3341 9238

226

Special weather statement, Sep 11, 3:17 PM CDT, 4 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
Sep 11, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	25 min
Sep 11, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	24 min
Sep 11, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	22 min
Sep 11, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	33 min
Sep 11, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Calhoun	25 min
Sep 11, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	28 min
Sep 11, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard	17 min
Sep 11, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	44 min
Sep 11, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	32 min
Sep 11, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	35 min
Sep 11, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	46 min
Sep 11, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	28 min
Sep 11, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	27 min
Sep 11, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	32 min
Sep 11, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	48 min
Sep 11, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	24 min
Sep 11, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	29 min
Sep 11, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	31 min
Sep 11, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Pope	40 min
Sep 11, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	33 min
Sep 11, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	39 min
Sep 11, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.