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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this winter storm warning at Dec 4, 2013, 4:53 AM CST for 20 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Dec 5, 2013, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 31 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2013, 4:53 AM CST (10:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 5, 2013, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 6, 2013, 3:58 PM CST
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
Counties Baxter County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Marion County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Perry 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), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 4, 4:26 AM CST, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 4:26 AM CST, 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 6:01 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 15 hr |
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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.