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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2014, 1:10 PM CDT for Newton County, Searcy County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 14, 2014, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2014, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Newton County, AR, Searcy County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
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 Jul 14, 12:44 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:44 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 5:00 AM CDT, 8 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-151000- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 500 AM CDT MON JUL 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HEAT INDICES THIS AFTERNOON WILL RANGE FROM 100 TO 104 ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS. A COLD FRONT WILL BRING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO ARKANSAS TODAY. A FEW SEVERE STORMS COULD OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE A GREATER THREAT THAN LARGE HAIL. SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY UNUSUALLY COOL NIGHTS AND MILD DAYS...FOR THE MIDDLE OF JULY...WILL BE FELT BEGINNING TUESDAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL STALL TO THE SOUTH OF ARKANSAS AND THEN BEGIN MOVING BACK TO THE NORTH LATER THIS WEEK. MEANWHILE...AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE ALOFT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE WEST. THE RESULT WILL BE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...FROM TIME TO TIME...BEGINNING WEDNESDAY NIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT... ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. RAIN SHOULD TAPER OFF ON FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES MORE TYPICAL OF SUMMERTIME WILL RETURN BY NEXT SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BECOME NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Searcy and 2 more | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Stone | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Scott, Yell | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 3:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, White | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 4:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White, Woodruff | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pike | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 20 min |
| Jul 14, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Prairie | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 5:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Garland | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring, Saline | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski | 51 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.