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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 20, 2013Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at May 20, 2013, 11:21 PM CDT for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 20, 2013, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2013, 11:50 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

County Faulkner County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 1940 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 8.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 20, 8:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 20, 8:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 20, 11:21 PM CDT, 0 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 20, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	30 min
May 20, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	46 min
May 20, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope	52 min
May 20, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	47 min
May 20, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Van Buren, Yell	51 min
May 20, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	32 min
May 20, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	45 min
May 20, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline, Yell	32 min
May 20, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Stone, Van Buren	32 min
May 20, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	34 min
May 20, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	26 min
May 20, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, White	34 min
May 20, 11:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Stone	44 min
May 21, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Jackson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Pulaski and 2 more	44 min
May 21, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe and 3 more	45 min
May 21, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Sharp, Stone and 2 more	39 min
May 21, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	30 min
May 21, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Sharp	15 min
May 21, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff	24 min
May 21, 12:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan, Scott	30 min
May 21, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	43 min
May 21, 1:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	32 min
May 21, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway, Yell	29 min
May 21, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Van Buren, Yell	36 min
May 21, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Perry, Stone and 2 more	31 min
May 21, 3:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Scott	28 min
May 21, 3:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, White	31 min
May 21, 3:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Scott, Yell	30 min
May 21, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Perry, Pope and 4 more	39 min
May 21, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Newton, Perry and 5 more	49 min
May 21, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Searcy and 3 more	38 min
May 21, 5:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline, White	30 min
May 21, 5:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Sharp, White	31 min
May 21, 6:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White, Woodruff	29 min
May 21, 6:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Sharp	21 min
May 21, 6:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	44 min
May 21, 9:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk, Scott	23 min
May 21, 10:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	110 min
May 21, 11:12 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Saline	11 hr
May 21, 11:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence	9 hr
May 21, 12:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner, Saline	29 min
May 21, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Pulaski, White	28 min
May 21, 12:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	3 hr
May 21, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	28 min
May 21, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	36 min
May 21, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	26 min
May 21, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	29 min
May 21, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	36 min
May 21, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ouachita	32 min
May 21, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas	26 min

Nearby

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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.