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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2016, 6:06 AM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 54 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
- Apr 29, 2016, 6:06 AM CDT (11:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Clark County, AR, Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:07 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 Apr 28, 7:32 PM CDT, 10 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 7:32 PM CDT, 10 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 5:06 AM CDT, 1 hour before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 506 AM CDT FRI APR 29 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-301015- 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- 506 AM CDT FRI APR 29 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO ARKANSAS TODAY. THE FIRST ROUND IN WEST AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS MORNING WILL POSE A THREAT FOR MAINLY LARGE HAIL. BUT AS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES THROUGH THE DAY...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOES WILL BECOME A POSSIBILITY AS WELL. STILL...THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM STORMS TODAY WILL BE HAIL AND WINDS. IN ADDITION TO THE STRONG STORMS...FLASH FLOODING WILL ALSO BE A POSSIBILITY AS HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING TO START THE DAY SATURDAY...PUSHING EAST ACROSS THE STATE WITH TIME. THE MAIN AREA TO WATCH FOR ANY STRONG TO SEVERE STORM WILL BE IN EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AS A RESULT. LARGE HAIL IS EXPECTED TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT AGAIN ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike, Polk | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 6:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Perry | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 23 min |
| Apr 29, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 7:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Dallas, Grant | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 7:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike, Polk | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 8:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 8:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 9:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Garland, Pike | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 10:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 10:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 10:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 10:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha, Drew | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 10:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Hot Spring | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 10:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 16 min |
| Apr 29, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 10:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 21 min |
| Apr 29, 11:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 11:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence, White | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 12:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pike | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 12:14 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 15 days |
| Apr 29, 12:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Saline | 64 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jefferson | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 1:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Arkansas | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 1:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Polk | 52 min |
| Apr 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 6:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk | 3 hr |
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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.