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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2016, 9:15 PM CDT for Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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 30, 2016, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Fulton County, AR, Sharp County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 30, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 30, 2:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 2:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 255 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2016 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT LAST OF THE RAIN MOVED OUT OF ERN AR ARND MIDDAY. CANOPY OF MID AND HIGH LVL CLOUDS CONTD WORKING EWD OUT OF THE FA THIS AFTN...YIELDING A GOOD BIT OF SUNSHINE. THIS HAS ALLOWED SOME DESTABILIZATION ACRS WRN AR THIS AFTN JUST AHEAD OF A CDFNT IN THE VCNTY OF THE AR/OK BRDR. LATEST DATA SUGGEST SBCAPES OF 1500-2000 J/KG AHEAD OF THE FNT OVR THE WRN HALF OF OUR FA. HI RES MODEL DATA CONTS TO INDC THAT SCTD CONVECTION WL DVLP AHEAD OF THE FNTL BNDRY LATE THIS AFTN OVR WRN AR. ANY STORMS THAT CAN GET BETTER ORGANIZED LATE THIS AFTN WL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...ESP WHERE AFTN HEATING HAS BEEN MAXIMIZED. THE ACTIVITY WL THEN TRANSLATE GRADUALLY EWD INTO THE CNTRL/ERN PART OF THE STATE LATER THIS EVENING. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE CONVECTION WL DIMINISH IN INTENSITY/COVERAGE LATER TNGT WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. THE AFOREMENTIONED FNTL BNDRY WL SHIFT JUST SE OF AR BY SUN BEFORE STALLING OUT. EXPECT MAINLY DRY CONDS IN MOST AREAS...WITH JUST A SLGT CHC OF SHRA/TSRA OVR FAR SERN AR. RAIN CHCS WL RETURN TO THE FA FM THE SW SUN NGT AS A NEW STORM SYS FORMS OVR TX...ALONG THE STALLED FNT. GOOD RAIN CHCS WL CONT ON MON...BUT WL SEE A GRADUAL DCRS IN POPS FM THE NW MON AFTN AS THE LOW PRES TRACKS E OF AR. HIGH PRES WL BRING DRIER CONDS TO THE REGION STARTING MON NGT. && .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AN UPPER RIDGE IS EXPECTED OVER THE ROCKIES TO BEGIN THE LONG TERM PERIOD WITH AN UPPER TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN U.S. AN UPPER LOW WILL DROP THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE UPPER RIDGE WILL THEN MOVE INTO THE PLAINS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. OVERALL IT LOOKS TO BE DRY THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THE AXIS OF THE UPPER RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER ARKANSAS BY SATURDAY NIGHT. A PROLONGED PERIOD OF NORTHWEST FLOW WILL BE OVER ARKANSAS UNTIL THIS RIDGE MOVES OVER THE STATE. EXPECT HIGHS IN THE 70S AND LOWS IN THE 40S AND 50S. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...44 / LONG TERM...51
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 30, 2:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 255 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-011000- 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- 255 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS...THOUGH THESE WILL BE SOMEWHAT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED IN NATURE. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL SUPPORT SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS AND THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 51
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 30, 6:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
629 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0610 PM HAIL 8 ESE MOUNTAIN HOME 36.29N 92.25W
04/30/2016 E1.00 INCH BAXTER AR SOCIAL MEDIA
&&
JHOODLocal storm report, Apr 30, 8:33 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
900 PM CDT SAT APR 30 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0655 PM HAIL ATKINS 35.24N 92.95W
04/30/2016 E1.25 INCH POPE AR SOCIAL MEDIA
&&
JHOODThe office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway | 25 min |
| Apr 30, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion, Searcy | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Marion | 23 min |
| Apr 30, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner | 11 min |
| Apr 30, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Stone | 25 min |
| Apr 30, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton | 26 min |
| Apr 30, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Sharp | 43 min |
| May 1, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 34 min |
| May 1, 12:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas | 19 min |
| May 1, 12:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 18 min |
| May 1, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 33 min |
| May 1, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Hot Spring | 44 min |
| May 1, 5:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Lawrence | 4 days |
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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.