Alert archive / Arkansas / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 8:28 PM CDT for Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2016, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
County Marion County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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 text
As transmitted.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 5, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 8:00 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 800 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-061000- 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- 800 AM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE EVENING...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORM WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. LARGE HAIL WILL BE A LOWER THREAT. LATER TONIGHT THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AND DISSIPATE. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS WITH LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING A RISK IF THE STORMS MOVE SLOWLY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES REACHING TO AROUND 105 DEGREES FOR MUCH OF THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND...ESPECIALLY ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THE THREAT OF ANY ORGANIZED OR WIDESPREAD STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LOW. HOWEVER A STRONGER STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED...BUT STORM REPORTS ARE REQUESTED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LZK. 57/59
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 5, 6:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:40 PM CDT, 48 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 55
Local storm report, Aug 5, 8:00 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
800 PM CDT FRI AUG 05 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0755 PM TSTM WND GST 2 NW HARRISON 36.26N 93.15W
08/05/2016 M54 MPH BOONE AR ASOS
&&
JHOODSpecial weather statement, Aug 5, 8:21 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 821 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016 ARZ003-004-060145- BOONE AR-MARION AR- 821 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MARION AND NORTHEASTERN BOONE COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM CDT... AT 821 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WILLIS...OR 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARRISON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DIAMOND CITY... LEAD HILL... WILLIS... CRUMPLER SUBDIVISION... SOUTH LEAD HILL... MONARCH... PEEL... 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. && LAT...LON 3635 9266 3638 9308 3650 9306 3649 9269 TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 279DEG 9KT 3643 9299 55
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 8:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
828 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016
ARZ003-004-060200-
BOONE AR-MARION AR-
828 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN MARION AND
SOUTHEASTERN BOONE COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT...
AT 827 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CLARK HILL TO JUST EAST OF
HARRISON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
YELLVILLE... FLIPPIN...
BERGMAN... PYATT...
VALLEY SPRINGS... WININGTON...
RUSH... CLARK HILL...
CRAWFORD... DODD CITY...
OLVEY... LAKEWAY...
BULL SHOALS STATE PARK... SUMMIT...
BELLEFONTE... EVERTON...
ZINC... FAIRVIEW IN MARION COUNTY...
RALPH... BRUNO...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3635 9259 3634 9258 3634 9255 3631 9258
3631 9255 3613 9253 3616 9310 3637 9297
TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 286DEG 17KT 3635 9287 3621 9306
55The 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, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 8:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone | 24 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
Special Weather Statements in Arkansas, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.