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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 28, 2014Arkansas County, Desha County, Monroe County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2014, 5:29 AM CDT for Arkansas County, Desha County, Monroe County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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: Apr 28, 2014, 5:29 AM CDT (10:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2014, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Monroe County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 27, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 2449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 480 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 618 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 8.8
Supercell composite: 40.3

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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 Apr 28, 5:21 AM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 5:21 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 5:00 AM CDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 12:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 1:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 3:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 3:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 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
Apr 27, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Pulaski, Van Buren, White	42 min
Apr 27, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	25 min
Apr 27, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	LZK	Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	24 min
Apr 27, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Van Buren and 1 more	35 min
Apr 27, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	33 min
Apr 27, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Stone, Van Buren	32 min
Apr 27, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White	31 min
Apr 27, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell	44 min
Apr 27, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Sharp	51 min
Apr 27, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, White	34 min
Apr 27, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Van Buren and 1 more	38 min
Apr 27, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	White	31 min
Apr 27, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Stone, Van Buren, White	43 min
Apr 27, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White	37 min
Apr 27, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Stone, White	48 min
Apr 27, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	LZK	Independence, Jackson	41 min
Apr 27, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence	27 min
Apr 27, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence	26 min
Apr 27, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Sharp	23 min
Apr 27, 9:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	28 min
Apr 27, 9:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 27, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Sharp	25 min
Apr 27, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	52 min
Apr 27, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott	38 min
Apr 27, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope	41 min
Apr 27, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	47 min
Apr 27, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell	44 min
Apr 27, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Independence, Izard, Sharp	29 min
Apr 27, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Johnson, Marion, Newton, Pope and 2 more	51 min
Apr 27, 11:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy	21 min
Apr 27, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope, Van Buren and 1 more	47 min
Apr 28, 12:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	43 hr
Apr 28, 12:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	60 hr
Apr 28, 12:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone	3 hr
Apr 28, 1:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Garland, Perry	44 min
Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	53 hr
Apr 28, 2:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	13 days
Apr 28, 2:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence	23 days
Apr 28, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring, Ouachita	44 min
Apr 28, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	49 min
Apr 28, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Pulaski	45 min
Apr 28, 3:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence	56 hr
Apr 28, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, White	37 min
Apr 28, 3:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Jackson, White	3 hr
Apr 28, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Van Buren, Yell	39 min
Apr 28, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Clark, Dallas, Ouachita	47 min
Apr 28, 3:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie	42 min
Apr 28, 3:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	37 min
Apr 28, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Jefferson, Lincoln	46 min
Apr 28, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	41 min
Apr 28, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	43 min
Apr 28, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln	51 min
Apr 28, 5:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Lincoln	23 min
Apr 28, 9:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Prairie	18 min
Apr 28, 9:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Prairie	20 min
Apr 28, 9:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	30 min
Apr 28, 12:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	4 days
Apr 28, 1:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	8 days
Apr 28, 1:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	31 days
Apr 28, 1:16 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Prairie	36 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.