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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 24, 20144 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2014, 5:21 PM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 39 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 24, 2014, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Garland County, AR, Perry County, AR, Saline County, AR, Yell County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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 24, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 397 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 413 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 24, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 24, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 24, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 24, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 24, 4:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 24, 4:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 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 24, 9:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk, Scott	28 min
Apr 24, 10:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	29 min
Apr 24, 11:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan, Yell	30 min
Apr 24, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	30 min
Apr 24, 12:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	28 min
Apr 24, 12:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	28 min
Apr 24, 1:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	30 min
Apr 24, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	31 min
Apr 24, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	32 min
Apr 24, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway	31 min
Apr 24, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Dallas, Grant	30 min
Apr 24, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	33 min
Apr 24, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ouachita	28 min
Apr 24, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	31 min
Apr 24, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	31 min
Apr 24, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Van Buren	25 min
Apr 24, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	32 min
Apr 24, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	30 min
Apr 24, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun	32 min
Apr 24, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Drew, Ouachita	49 min
Apr 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Scott, Yell	47 min
Apr 24, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White, Woodruff	44 min
Apr 24, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott	42 min
Apr 24, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe, Prairie	45 min
Apr 24, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	28 min
Apr 24, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	34 min
Apr 24, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	31 min
Apr 24, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie	28 min
Apr 24, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew	23 min
Apr 24, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope	33 min
Apr 24, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	31 min
Apr 24, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	36 min
Apr 24, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	33 min
Apr 24, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	31 min
Apr 24, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Scott, Yell	34 min
Apr 24, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Pike, Polk	34 min
Apr 24, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike	46 min
Apr 24, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	30 min
Apr 24, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	31 min
Apr 24, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline	28 min
Apr 24, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	21 min
Apr 24, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Pulaski and 1 more	49 min

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.