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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this winter storm warning at Feb 19, 2015, 1:37 PM CST for 8 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Feb 20, 2015, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 27 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 19, 2015, 1:37 PM CST (19:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2015, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2015, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
Counties Baxter County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 19, 11:56 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 11:56 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 1:37 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Conway and 20 more | 40 hr |
| Feb 19, 1:37 PM CST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 8 more | 19 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.