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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 5, 2016Boone County, Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2016, 7:46 PM CDT for Boone County, Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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: Aug 5, 2016, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2016, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Boone County, AR, Marion County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 1836 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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 Aug 5, 6:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 6:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 5:00 AM CDT, 14 hours 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 1:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 6:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:01 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:40 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
740 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016

ARZ003-060115-
BOONE AR-
740 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL BOONE COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM
CDT...

AT 739 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM CENTERED NEAR HARRISON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARRISON...                       BERGMAN...
VALLEY SPRINGS...                 DUGGER...
WININGTON...                      CAPPS...
SELF...                           CRAWFORD...
MYRTLE...                         OLVEY...
WILLIS...                         BELLEFONTE...
EVERTON...                        ZINC...
SOUTH LEAD HILL...                BATAVIA...
BEAR CREEK SPRINGS...             RIDGEWAY...
HOPEWELL IN BOONE COUNTY...

LAT...LON 3612 9290 3624 9325 3640 9318 3640 9289
TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 280DEG 8KT 3630 9312

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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
Aug 5, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	29 min
Aug 5, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	35 min
Aug 5, 8:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	24 min
Aug 5, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Marion	32 min
Aug 5, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Marion	32 min
Aug 5, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	47 min
Aug 5, 9:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion	3 hr
Aug 5, 9:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion	3 hr
Aug 5, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	43 min
Aug 5, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson	51 min
Aug 5, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope	25 min
Aug 5, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	48 min
Aug 6, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Pope, Van Buren	48 min
Aug 6, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren	38 min
Aug 6, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren, White	32 min
Aug 6, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	39 min
Aug 6, 12:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	37 min
Aug 6, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	52 min
Aug 6, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	30 min
Aug 6, 1:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	39 min
Aug 6, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha, Drew	44 min
Aug 6, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	44 min
Aug 6, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley	26 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.