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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 6, 2015Conway County, Pope County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2015, 12:38 PM CDT for Conway County, Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 52 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
Jun 6, 2015, 12:38 PM CDT (17:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2015, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Conway County, AR, Pope County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2015-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2015-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-187 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Izard, Stone30 min
Jun 5, 7:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleburne, Independence, Jackson31 min
Jun 5, 7:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBaxter18 min
Jun 5, 7:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJackson31 min
Jun 5, 8:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKIzard30 min
Jun 6, 4:10 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, Lawrence66 hr
Jun 6, 10:47 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKJackson, Woodruff12 days
Jun 6, 12:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKConway31 min
Jun 6, 12:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPope28 min
Jun 6, 2:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJohnson29 min
Jun 6, 4:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSaline28 min
Jun 6, 4:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKYell31 min
Jun 6, 4:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland31 min
Jun 6, 4:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSaline30 min
Jun 6, 5:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland31 min
Jun 6, 5:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMontgomery29 min
Jun 6, 5:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKClark30 min
Jun 6, 6:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKClark17 min
Jun 6, 6:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKClark, Pike31 min
Jun 6, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPike31 min
Jun 6, 6:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKClark30 min

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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.