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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2014, 10:15 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Ouachita County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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 3, 2014, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Calhoun County, AR, Ouachita County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 3, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 2253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
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 3, 9:37 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 9:37 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 9:57 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 957 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-040845- 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- 957 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A STRONG STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO TRACK ACROSS THE NATIONS MID SECTION AT THIS TIME. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA...WILL DRAG A COLD FRONT INTO AND EVENTUALLY THROUGH THE STATE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THIS FRONT AND SOME STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THIS LINE OF STRONG STORMS IS EXPECTED TO GET INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS EARLY THIS EVENING AND REACH CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE SEVERAL HOURS LATER. THE FRONT WILL REACH EASTERN ARKANSAS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. AS FAR AS RAINFALL...HALF INCH TO INCH AND A HALF TOTALS ARE IN THE FORECAST. PARTS OF THE SOUTHWEST COULD GET LESS...WITH POTENTIALLY MORE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST. GUSTY WINDS WILL BE SEEN AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL IMPACT THE REGION SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH MORE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. COOLER AIR WILL BE PULLED IN ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE SYSTEM WHICH WILL BRING A FEW COLD MORNINGS TO AT LEAST NORTHERN PARTS OF THE STATE DURING THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TODAY WITH SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF ARKANSAS. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 226/56
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 8:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Apr 3, 8:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
857 PM CDT THU APR 03 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 PM HAIL MARSHALL 35.91N 92.64W
04/03/2014 M3.00 INCH SEARCY AR SOCIAL MEDIA
&&
58Local storm report, Apr 3, 9:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
904 PM CDT THU APR 03 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0854 PM HAIL AGNOS 36.27N 91.68W
04/03/2014 E1.00 INCH FULTON AR TRAINED SPOTTER
NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST EAST OF
AGNOS.
&&
46Local storm report, Apr 3, 9:27 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
927 PM CDT THU APR 03 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0850 PM HAIL GLENCOE 36.28N 91.75W
04/03/2014 E1.75 INCH FULTON AR SOCIAL MEDIA
&&
46Local storm report, Apr 3, 9:52 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
952 PM CDT THU APR 03 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0815 PM HAIL BIG FLAT 36.01N 92.40W
04/03/2014 E2.50 INCH BAXTER AR BROADCAST MEDIA
HAIL WAS ALMOST TO THE SIZE OF TENNIS BALLS AT BIG FLAT.
&&
46The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Stone | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Stone | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 11:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring and 1 more | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 12:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 26 min |
| Apr 4, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Van Buren | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 12:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Lincoln and 1 more | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Grant, Jefferson and 1 more | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 12:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleburne | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 1:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln, Monroe | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 4:24 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 14 hr |
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.