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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT for Independence County, Izard County, Stone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 8, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Stone County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 Jul 8, 1:12 PM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:12 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 930 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-091000- 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- 930 AM CDT FRI JUL 8 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A MARGINAL TO SLIGHT RISK OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MAINLY NORTHERN ARKANSAS TODAY AS A STORM COMPLEX MOVES FROM OKLAHOMA INTO ARKANSAS. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...BUT ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. MAIN THREATS WITH STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...AS WELL AS LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL. ALSO...HOT TEMPERATURES WILL ONCE AGAIN BE NOTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE TODAY WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES EXPECTED TO CLIMB INTO THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. EXTRA CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN TO MINIMIZE THE RISK OF THE HEAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY CONTINUED CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN ACROSS THE STATE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AS A FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH AND SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED, ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL. MAIN THREATS WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. THE GREATEST CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST HALF OF THE STATE. RAIN CHANCES THIS WEEKEND WILL BRING SLIGHTLY COOLER CONDITIONS TO NORTHERN ARKANSAS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE HEAT WILL RETURN TO THE STATE NEXT WEEK WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO CLIMB INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S BY MID-WEEK. WITH THESE TEMPERATURES AND AMPLE MOISTURE, DANGEROUS HEAT INDEX READINGS OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES MAY BE SEEN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 226/59
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:46 PM CDT, 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Stone | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 2:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Sharp | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 2:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 2:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Izard | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 4:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 34 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.