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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 10, 2016Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2016, 4:14 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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 10, 2016, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pulaski County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 272 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: 2031 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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 Jul 10, 2:14 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:14 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 5:00 AM CDT, 11 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-111000-
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-
500 AM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...ESPECIALLY
OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE STATE.

ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ISOLATED...WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN
CONCERN. ANY FLASH FLOODING DUE TO LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE
SPOTTY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SMALL CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON
MONDAY...MAINLY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS.

THE HEAT WILL RETURN TO THE STATE TUESDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE
REST OF THE WEEK. HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO CLIMB INTO THE
LOWER TO MID 90S. GIVEN THESE TEMPERATURES AND AMPLE MOISTURE...
AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX READINGS WILL REACH 100 TO 105 DEGREES IN
PLACES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
102 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016

ARZ062-066-101830-
OUACHITA AR-DALLAS AR-
102 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL DALLAS AND NORTH
CENTRAL OUACHITA COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM CDT...

AT 102 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES SOUTH OF SPARKMAN...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF CAMDEN...MOVING EAST
AT 5 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EAST CAMDEN...                    AMY...
TATES BLUFF...                    HOLLY SPRINGS...
WARNER...                         LESTER...
HARMONY GROVE...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3366 9296 3382 9293 3382 9291 3381 9290
      3383 9289 3384 9288 3384 9271 3360 9275
TIME...MOT...LOC 1802Z 277DEG 6KT 3377 9281

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 2:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 2:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:19 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:48 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 10, 4:09 PM CDT, 5 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
Jul 10, 8:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark	28 min
Jul 10, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ouachita	28 min
Jul 10, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	26 min
Jul 10, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	38 min
Jul 10, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry	33 min
Jul 10, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson	31 min
Jul 10, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	31 min
Jul 10, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	41 min
Jul 10, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	36 min
Jul 10, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	45 min
Jul 10, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland	42 min
Jul 10, 4:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	3 hr
Jul 10, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	41 min
Jul 10, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Marion	46 min
Jul 10, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	44 min
Jul 10, 6:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	38 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.