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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2015, 1:11 AM CDT for Polk County, Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 64 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
- Mar 26, 2015, 1:11 AM CDT (06:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2015, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 Mar 26, 12:45 AM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 12:45 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 615 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-261000- 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- 615 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT A STORM SYSTEM CURRENTLY IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL MARCH EAST THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ERUPTED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND AND NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AT THIS TIME. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN ISOLATED TORNADOES. THESE STORMS ARE IN ADVANCE OF THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WITH THIS STORM WHICH IS STILL LOCATED IN OKLAHOMA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN ARKANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS THE AFOREMENTIONED FRONT MOVES THROUGH. HOWEVER...AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH THE NIGHT....RAIN WILL BECOME MORE SCATTERED WITH TIME...AND CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY IT WILL TURN MUCH COOLER BEHIND THE FRONT THURSDAY. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST...AND WILL BE GUSTY. A LAKE WIND ADVISORY MAY BE REQUIRED. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS...TEMPERATURES MAY DROP TO AROUND FREEZING IN ISOLATED SPOTS ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS. PATCHY FROST WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING IN THE NORTHWEST HALF OF ARKANSAS DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 46/56
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Local storm report, Mar 25, 8:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 47 min |
| Mar 25, 7:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter | 31 min |
| Mar 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 16 min |
| Mar 25, 7:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton | 32 min |
| Mar 25, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 34 min |
| Mar 25, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 37 min |
| Mar 25, 8:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Fulton, Marion | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 39 min |
| Mar 25, 8:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Randolph | 71 hr |
| Mar 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 38 min |
| Mar 25, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 30 min |
| Mar 25, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Stone | 44 min |
| Mar 25, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 52 min |
| Mar 25, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Searcy | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Sharp | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 44 min |
| Mar 25, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Yell | 64 min |
| Mar 26, 2:47 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pike | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 3:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Hot Spring | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 9:03 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 36 hr |
| Mar 26, 11:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Lawrence, Randolph | 49 hr |
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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.