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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2018, 5:04 PM CST for Logan County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 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
- Mar 10, 2018, 5:04 PM CST (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2018, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Logan County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 10, 3:01 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 3:01 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 334 PM CST Sat Mar 10 2018 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-111100- 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- 334 PM CST Sat Mar 10 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Rest of This Afternoon and Tonight Isolated strong to severe storms are possible through the overnight hours, primarily over central and southern Arkansas. The main threats will be strong winds and damaging hail. Locally heavy rain will also be possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday Through Friday Subfreezing temperatures are in the forecast, mainly across northern and west-central Arkansas the first half of next week. Sheltered valley areas will be most susceptible to seeing a freeze. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation may be needed this evening. Severe storm reports are requested. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk. 44
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 4:42 PM CST, 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 10, 4:42 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 4:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Yell | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 5:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Faulkner | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 5:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Johnson | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 5:36 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Van Buren | 24 min |
| Mar 10, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 49 min |
| Mar 10, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Pope | 51 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.