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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Little Rock, AR
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.
- 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
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 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. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 59
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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.
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MBROWNLocal storm report, Jun 15, 6:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, White | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 8:05 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Grant, Independence and 11 more | 14 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.