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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 324, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2018, 2:09 PM CDT for Independence County, Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 6, 2018, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2018, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 896 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 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 Aug 6, 6:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 24 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Little Rock AR 455 AM CDT Mon Aug 6 2018 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-071000- 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- 455 AM CDT Mon Aug 6 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Hot and humid conditions are expected today, with heat index values climbing into the low-100s by afternoon. Additionally, isolated thunderstorms will be possible this afternoon, with gusty winds and lightning likely in any thunderstorms that develop. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday Through Sunday An unsettled weather pattern is expected this week into the weekend. Showers and thunderstorms will be numerous, and while the threat for severe weather appears low, heavy rainfall will be likely and may lead to isolated flooding. Any flood threat that does materialize will begin across northern Arkansas Tuesday and gradually spread south into western Arkansas by Wednesday and beyond. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation will not be needed today or tonight. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk. Cooper/Brown
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:05 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 40 min |
| Aug 6, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, White | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 3:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Perry, Saline | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, White | 22 min |
| Aug 6, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Saline | 44 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.