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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 23, 201334 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this wind advisory at Mar 23, 2013, 2:51 PM CDT for 34 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 24, 2013, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2013, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 24, 2013, 9:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 24, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

All 34 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Marion County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 23, 12:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 12:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 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
Mar 23, 12:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark	44 min
Mar 23, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Calhoun	29 min
Mar 23, 12:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	47 min
Mar 23, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland, Lincoln	43 min
Mar 23, 1:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson	32 min
Mar 23, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	30 min
Mar 23, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	32 min
Mar 23, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	37 min
Mar 23, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ashley	29 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.