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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2014, 6:19 AM CDT for 6 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 56 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 27, 2014, 6:19 AM CDT (11:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2014, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Faulkner County, AR, Grant County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:22 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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 2050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 5:50 AM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 5:50 AM CDT, 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 27, 5:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-281000- 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 SUN APR 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND OVERSPREAD THE STATE THIS MORNING. BY THE AFTERNOON...STORMS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND THESE WILL CONTINUE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND MONDAY MORNING. SOME STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. THERE IS A HIGH AMOUNT OF WIND ENERGY PRESENT IN ALL LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...SO DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WILL BE A THREAT WITH ANY SEVERE STORMS AS WELL. ALSO...WINDS WILL BE TURNING AND INCREASING WITH HEIGHT...WHICH WILL SUPPORT A TORNADO THREAT. WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE PRESENT...STRONGER STORMS WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. THE TENDENCY OF STORMS TO FORM AND MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS WILL ONLY INCREASE THIS THREAT. THROUGH MONDAY...MUCH OF THE STATE IS EXPECTED TO SEE ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ALONG AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 30 AND U. S. HIGHWAY 67 CORRIDOR... WHERE AMOUNTS OVER THREE INCHES ARE LIKELY. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BE HEAVIEST DURING THE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THERE WILL BE A THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING AND EVEN RIVER FLOODING DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY...MAINLY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH ARKANSAS ON MONDAY. DAMAGING WINDS LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE. THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER MONDAY WILL BE IN THE EASTERN HALF OF ARKANSAS. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY. HOWEVER...AT THIS TIME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED. NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WITH DRIER AIR OVER THE AREA. THE NEXT CHANCE OF SHOWERS WILL BE ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TODAY AND POSSIBLY ON MONDAY. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:09 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
609 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014
ARZ043>045-055-056-271210-
GRANT AR-JEFFERSON AR-LONOKE AR-PULASKI AR-SALINE AR-
609 AM CDT SUN APR 27 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN SALINE...PULASKI...
SOUTHWESTERN LONOKE...WESTERN JEFFERSON AND NORTHEASTERN GRANT
COUNTIES UNTIL 715 AM CDT...
AT 605 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR BENTON TO 4
MILES SOUTH OF CANE CREEK TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMONT...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WEST LITTLE ROCK... SW LITTLE ROCK... SHERWOOD...
PINE BLUFF... N LITTLE ROCK ARPT... NORTH LITTLE ROCK...
LITTLE ROCK AFB... JACKSONVILLE...
DOWNTOWN LITTLE ROCK... BRYANT...
BENTON... WRIGHTSVILLE... WHITE HALL...
WARBRITTON... TOLTEC MOUNDS STATE PARK...
SYLVAN HILLS... SWEET HOME... SOUTH BEND...
&&
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS UNTIL
THE STORMS PASS.
LAT...LON 3448 9171 3442 9171 3406 9214 3406 9218
3435 9238 3462 9269 3493 9230 3493 9224
3499 9223 3502 9219 3476 9189 3448 9169
TIME...MOT...LOC 1108Z 225DEG 21KT 3462 9252 3442 9230
3419 9214
46The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 5:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LZK | Arkansas, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Garland and 16 more | 24 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 6:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 7:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Arkansas | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 8:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Prairie | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 8:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleburne | 28 min |
| Apr 27, 8:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 8:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 28 min |
| Apr 27, 8:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 9:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Stone | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 9:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe, Woodruff | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 10:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe, Woodruff | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 11:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Conway, Perry | 28 min |
| Apr 27, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Faulkner | 28 min |
| Apr 27, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Van Buren | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion | 52 min |
| Apr 27, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Stone | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Pope, Yell | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Yell | 24 min |
| Apr 27, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Yell | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Logan, Pope, Van Buren, Yell | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Pike and 2 more | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Stone | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Logan, Pope, Yell | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone | 43 min |
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.