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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 6, 2016Desha County, Arkansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2016-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 266 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2016-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 7:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKDesha29 min
Aug 5, 7:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBoone35 min
Aug 5, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Marion44 min
Aug 5, 8:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBoone24 min
Aug 5, 8:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMarion32 min
Aug 5, 8:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMarion32 min
Aug 5, 9:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBaxter47 min
Aug 5, 9:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBaxter, Boone, Marion3 hr
Aug 5, 9:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion3 hr
Aug 5, 11:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKFulton, Sharp43 min
Aug 5, 11:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJohnson51 min
Aug 5, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Pope25 min
Aug 5, 11:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPope48 min
Aug 6, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Pope, Van Buren48 min
Aug 6, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren38 min
Aug 6, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren, White32 min
Aug 6, 12:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLincoln39 min
Aug 6, 12:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleveland37 min
Aug 6, 1:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleveland52 min
Aug 6, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha, Drew, Lincoln30 min
Aug 6, 1:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKDesha, Drew44 min
Aug 6, 2:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha, Drew44 min
Aug 6, 2:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBradley26 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.