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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 1, 20148 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this winter storm warning at Feb 1, 2014, 2:30 PM CST for 8 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Feb 2, 2014, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 1, 2014, 2:30 PM CST (20:30 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 2, 2014, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 2, 2014, 7:56 PM CST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

Counties Baxter County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Marion County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 463 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 473 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 1, 11:32 AM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 11:32 AM CST, 2 hours 58 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
Feb 1, 3:54 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	LZK		11 hr
Feb 1, 2:30 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 20 more	32 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Arkansas, 2014 Every winter storm 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.