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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 25, 2014Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2014, 2:21 PM CDT for Faulkner County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 25, 2014, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2014, 3:05 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

County Faulkner County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 1014 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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
Aug 25, 4:15 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 27 more	15 hr
Aug 25, 1:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	24 min
Aug 25, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	31 min
Aug 25, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	29 min
Aug 25, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	30 min
Aug 25, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas	28 min
Aug 25, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	46 min
Aug 25, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson	28 min
Aug 25, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton	28 min
Aug 25, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	22 min
Aug 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	43 min
Aug 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	31 min
Aug 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson	29 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.