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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 15, 2016Cleburne County, White County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2016, 8:25 PM CDT for Cleburne County, White County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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
Jun 15, 2016, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2016, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cleburne County, AR, White County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 00:00Z on 2016-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2951 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 00:00Z on 2016-06-16The 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
2951 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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 Jun 15, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:30 AM CDT, 14 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
530 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-161030-
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-
530 AM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE
TODAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. A
MARGINAL TO SLIGHT RISK OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CENTRAL TO NORTHERN ARKANSAS. LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. THE STORMS WILL MAINLY
BE SEEN IN THE AFTERNOON TO EVENING.

OTHERWISE...HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN BE IN THE 90S THIS
AFTERNOON...AND COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITIES...WILL PRODUCE HEAT
INDEX VALUES AROUND 105 DEGREES. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR
MUCH OF ARKANSAS TODAY. PLEASE USE CAUTION WHILE OUTSIDE THIS
AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

RAIN CHANCES WILL LOWER FOR MUCH OF THE REST OF THE WEEK.
HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM COULD BE SEEN...WHICH
MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS
EXPECTED.

THE HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE
THURSDAY...AND A HEAT ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF
ARKANSAS. ON FRIDAY AND INTO SATURDAY...A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL
SAG INTO ARKANSAS...AND BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BACK INTO
THE FORECAST. AT THIS TIME THE THREAT OF ANY SEVERE STORMS WOULD
BE LOW AND ISOLATED. THIS FRONT IS ALSO EXPECTED TO LOWER
TEMPERATURES A BIT AND BRING SOME DRIER AIR TO THE STATE. THIS
WILL LOWER HEAT INDEX VALUES. LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT
WEEK...TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN WARM AS HUMIDITY LEVELS INCREASE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

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VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 6:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
619 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0615 PM     HAIL             BATESVILLE              35.77N 91.64W
06/15/2016  E1.00 INCH       INDEPENDENCE       AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

&&

MBROWN
Local storm report, Jun 15, 6:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 15, 7:50 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 8:14 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, White44 min
Jun 15, 8:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKWhite46 min
Jun 15, 9:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKWhite51 min
Jun 16, 8:05 AM CDTExcessive Heat WarningLZKArkansas, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Grant, Independence and 11 more14 hr

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.