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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2020, 7:11 AM CDT for Logan County, Scott County, Yell 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
- May 3, 2020, 7:11 AM CDT (12:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2020, 7:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Logan County, AR, Scott County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1461 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 61 min |
| May 3, 6:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 38 min |
| May 3, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Marion | 42 min |
| May 3, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion | 46 min |
| May 3, 11:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Marion | 45 min |
| May 3, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Izard, Marion, Searcy, Stone | 51 min |
| May 3, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard | 46 min |
| May 3, 12:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Randolph | 50 min |
| May 3, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone | 47 min |
| May 3, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Randolph | 32 min |
| May 3, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp | 29 min |
| May 3, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Sharp | 34 min |
| May 3, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, Lawrence | 38 min |
Nearby
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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.