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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this frost advisory at Mar 24, 2016, 2:40 PM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 25, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2016, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2016, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
Counties Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Perry County, AR, White County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Mar 24, 12:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 12:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 23, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 46 min |
| Mar 23, 10:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Logan | 50 min |
| Mar 23, 11:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 49 min |
| Mar 23, 11:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Johnson | 51 min |
| Mar 24, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Newton, Pope | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 1:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Yell | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 1:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Pope, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 29 min |
| Mar 24, 1:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Perry, Pope, Yell | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 3:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Clark | 35 min |
| Mar 24, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Grant | 31 min |
| Mar 24, 2:40 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Sharp, Stone | 17 hr |
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.