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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 2, 2015Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2015, 11:17 AM CDT for Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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 2, 2015, 11:17 AM CDT (16:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2015, 11:45 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Fulton County, AR, Sharp County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 395 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 286 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 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 2, 6:32 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 6:32 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 4:15 AM CDT, 7 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 10:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Apr 2, 10:19 AM CDT, 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
Apr 1, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	18 min
Apr 1, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	27 min
Apr 1, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	30 min
Apr 1, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	40 min
Apr 1, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard, Sharp	31 min
Apr 1, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Sharp	48 min
Apr 1, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline	44 min
Apr 1, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	39 min
Apr 1, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	44 min
Apr 2, 10:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	44 min
Apr 2, 10:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	46 min
Apr 2, 11:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton	30 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.