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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 24, 2016Sharp County, Arkansas

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.

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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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2016-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 319 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2016-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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
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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.

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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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 5:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKIndependence32 min
May 24, 12:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKFulton45 min
May 24, 1:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMarion23 min
May 24, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Marion, Newton34 min
May 24, 3:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBoone29 min
May 24, 3:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJohnson, Newton26 min
May 24, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Marion, Newton, Searcy53 min
May 24, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton, Pope26 min
May 24, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton, Pope34 min
May 24, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Marion, Searcy, Stone31 min
May 24, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton, Sharp32 min
May 24, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Izard, Stone25 min
May 24, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSearcy34 min
May 24, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Pope31 min
May 24, 5:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKIzard, Stone42 min
May 24, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, Sharp33 min
May 24, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSearcy, Van Buren42 min
May 24, 5:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPope37 min
May 24, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Van Buren31 min
May 24, 6:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKConway45 min
May 24, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Pope25 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.