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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 27, 2016Grant County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2016, 6:17 PM CDT for Grant County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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 27, 2016, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Grant County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 241 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -53 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 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:23 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	28 min
Jun 26, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	24 min
Jun 26, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	45 min
Jun 26, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Izard	47 min
Jun 26, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	44 min
Jun 26, 8:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	29 min
Jun 26, 8:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	41 min
Jun 26, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton, Izard	52 min
Jun 26, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Sharp	47 min
Jun 26, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	29 min
Jun 27, 12:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring	4 hr
Jun 27, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	25 min
Jun 27, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Pope	33 min
Jun 27, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark	3 hr
Jun 27, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	27 min
Jun 27, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie	51 min
Jun 27, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	47 min
Jun 27, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas	45 min
Jun 27, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	22 min
Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Stone	30 min
Jun 27, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	24 min
Jun 27, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	29 min
Jun 27, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley	37 min
Jun 27, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	17 min

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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.