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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 1:21 PM CDT for Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 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 6, 2016, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
County Desha County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
670 WWUS84 KLZK 061821 SPSLZK SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 121 PM CDT SAT AUG 6 2016 ARZ056-057-064-065-061900- ARKANSAS AR-JEFFERSON AR-DESHA AR-LINCOLN AR- 121 PM CDT SAT AUG 6 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS... NORTHWESTERN DESHA...SOUTHEASTERN JEFFERSON AND NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 121 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DOUGLAS... OR 13 MILES NORTH OF DUMAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DUMAS... GOULD... GILLETT... MITCHELLVILLE... MILLS... MERRISACH LAKE... DOUGLAS... ARKANSAS POST... PENDLETON... MORGAN POINT RECREATION AREA... REEDVILLE... PICKENS IN DESHA COUNTY... 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. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. 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 3398 9165 3419 9148 3408 9114 3379 9140 TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 309DEG 10KT 3408 9148 $$ 44
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, 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, 8:28 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, 1:46 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 |
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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.