Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2016, 12:41 PM CDT for Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 19 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
- May 24, 2016, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Sharp County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 May 24, 6:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 5:00 AM CDT, 7 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-251000- BOONE-MARION-BAXTER-FULTON-SHARP-NEWTON-SEARCY-STONE-IZARD- INDEPENDENCE-JOHNSON-POPE-VAN BUREN-CLEBURNE-JACKSON-LOGAN-CONWAY- FAULKNER-WHITE-WOODRUFF-SCOTT-YELL-PERRY-POLK-MONTGOMERY-GARLAND- SALINE-PULASKI-LONOKE-PRAIRIE-MONROE-PIKE-CLARK-HOT SPRING-GRANT- JEFFERSON-ARKANSAS-DALLAS-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-DESHA-OUACHITA-CALHOUN- BRADLEY-DREW- 500 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST AHEAD OF A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT IN THE PLAINS. PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE MORE WIDESPREAD FRIDAY AS A STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES. AS FAR AS RAINFALL IN THE COMING DAYS...ONE TO TWO INCH AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED IN THE NORTHWEST HALF OF ARKANSAS. LESSER AMOUNTS WILL BE NOTED FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST. AT THIS TIME...RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME EXCESSIVE...AND ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE SPOTTY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 46
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 12:30 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1230 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016
ARZ006-241815-
FULTON AR-
1230 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN FULTON COUNTY UNTIL
115 PM CDT...
AT 1230 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR VIOLA...OR 13 MILES WEST OF SALEM IN FULTON COUNTY...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
VIOLA... FLINT SPRINGS... STURKIE...
MOKO... GEPP... VIDETTE...
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3644 9167 3632 9208 3641 9214 3650 9203
3650 9171
TIME...MOT...LOC 1730Z 237DEG 17KT 3639 9206
44The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 32 min |
| May 24, 12:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton | 45 min |
| May 24, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Marion | 23 min |
| May 24, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton | 34 min |
| May 24, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone | 29 min |
| May 24, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 26 min |
| May 24, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 53 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 26 min |
| May 24, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 34 min |
| May 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion, Searcy, Stone | 31 min |
| May 24, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 32 min |
| May 24, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Stone | 25 min |
| May 24, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Searcy | 34 min |
| May 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 31 min |
| May 24, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Izard, Stone | 42 min |
| May 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Sharp | 33 min |
| May 24, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Searcy, Van Buren | 42 min |
| May 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pope | 37 min |
| May 24, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 31 min |
| May 24, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Conway | 45 min |
| May 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2016Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016
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.