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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 15, 2016Saline County, Arkansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2016-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 57 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2016-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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 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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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.

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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

226

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe47 min
Jul 14, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff47 min
Jul 14, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe, Prairie42 min
Jul 14, 8:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPhillips27 min
Jul 15, 6:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSaline35 min
Jul 15, 6:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPulaski25 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.