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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 29, 2016Boone County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2016, 5:31 PM CDT for Boone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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 29, 2016, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Boone County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2016-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 23 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2016-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 3:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKConway29 min
Jun 29, 3:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJohnson25 min
Jun 29, 4:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKYell33 min
Jun 29, 4:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland36 min
Jun 29, 5:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBoone33 min
Jun 29, 5:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland23 min
Jun 29, 5:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBoone31 min
Jun 29, 6:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland28 min
Jun 29, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery32 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.