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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2016, 6:29 PM CDT for Saline 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 15, 2016, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2016, 7:15 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 Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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 Jul 15, 2:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 3:30 AM CDT, 14 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 330 AM CDT FRI JUL 15 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-161000- 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- 330 AM CDT FRI JUL 15 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREATS EXPECTED WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL COULD ALSO BE SEEN...RESULTING IN AN ISOLATED FLASH FLOOD THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SOME ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY...WITH AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE. CHANCES FOR RAINFALL DECREASE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ALOFT OVER THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES. TEMPERATURES WILL THEN INCREASE WELL INTO THE 90S TO AROUND 100. HEAT INDEX VALUES MAY INCREASE OVER 105 DEGREES DURING THIS SAME PERIOD...WITH HEAT ADVISORIES POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 62/56
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:25 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
625 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2016
ARZ043-160000-
SALINE AR-
625 PM CDT FRI JUL 15 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN SALINE COUNTY UNTIL
700 PM CDT...
AT 624 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES NORTH OF LONSDALE...OR 10 MILES EAST OF HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE... AVILLA...
BLAND... CROWS...
GRAPE... REFORM...
PARON...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
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 3485 9282 3484 9276 3483 9274 3485 9274
3485 9272 3480 9265 3477 9265 3477 9259
3473 9254 3469 9255 3457 9273 3467 9292
TIME...MOT...LOC 2324Z 220DEG 7KT 3469 9276
226The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Phillips | 27 min |
| Jul 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Saline | 35 min |
| Jul 15, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski | 25 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.