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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 23, 2017Scott County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2017, 5:48 PM CDT for Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 23, 2017, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2017, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Scott County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 23, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 23, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 5:30 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:22 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 5:30 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:30 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:34 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 5:47 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:47 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie, White	33 min
Jun 22, 7:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lonoke, Prairie, White	3 hr
Jun 22, 7:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	23 min
Jun 22, 8:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	23 min
Jun 22, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, White	3 hr
Jun 23, 12:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant	3 hr
Jun 23, 5:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Bradley, Drew	2 hr
Jun 23, 6:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe	3 hr
Jun 23, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion, Searcy	36 min
Jun 23, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	26 min
Jun 23, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion	29 min
Jun 23, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy	35 min
Jun 23, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard	49 min
Jun 23, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Marion	29 min
Jun 23, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	37 min
Jun 23, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion, Searcy	36 min
Jun 23, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone	49 min
Jun 23, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope	40 min
Jun 23, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	48 min
Jun 23, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	45 min
Jun 23, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	44 min
Jun 23, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Stone, White	43 min
Jun 23, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren, White	38 min
Jun 23, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson, Pope	46 min
Jun 23, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Sharp	29 min
Jun 23, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	27 min
Jun 23, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	35 min
Jun 23, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, White	44 min
Jun 23, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	49 min
Jun 23, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson	46 min
Jun 23, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke, Perry, Prairie, Pulaski, Saline	49 min
Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan, Yell	30 min
Jun 23, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	51 min
Jun 23, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	26 min
Jun 23, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk, Scott	50 min
Jun 23, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	41 min
Jun 23, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	26 min
Jun 23, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	38 min
Jun 23, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Saline	37 min
Jun 23, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson	45 min
Jun 23, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	41 min
Jun 23, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring	43 min
Jun 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Montgomery	47 min
Jun 23, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	41 min
Jun 23, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Montgomery	34 min
Jun 23, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pike	41 min
Jun 23, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	39 min
Jun 23, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland, Desha, Lincoln	52 min
Jun 23, 6:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring	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.