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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2020, 11:12 PM CDT for Woodruff County, Arkansas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 24, 2020, 11:12 PM CDT (04:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
County Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1294 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
099
WWUS84 KLZK 250412
SPSLZK
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
1112 PM CDT Sun May 24 2020
ARZ034-047-250500-
Monroe AR-Woodruff AR-
1112 PM CDT Sun May 24 2020
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN WOODRUFF AND NORTH
CENTRAL MONROE COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...
At 1111 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Brinkley, moving north at 25 mph.
Penny size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Brinkley... Patterson...
Alfrey... Allendale...
McCrory... Cotton Plant...
Fargo... Becton...
Dixie... Howell...
McClelland... Gregory...
Grays... Dagmar WMA...
Zent... Wiville...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may
lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through
flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3482 9113 3479 9131 3494 9137 3505 9136
3505 9141 3514 9145 3514 9143 3517 9146
3516 9144 3518 9142 3519 9143 3520 9141
3521 9141 3519 9138 3521 9139 3522 9138
3526 9118 3491 9115 3491 9114
TIME...MOT...LOC 0411Z 167DEG 21KT 3488 9126
$$
46The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pike | 45 min |
| May 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Clark | 44 min |
| May 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 24, 8:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha | 35 min |
| May 24, 9:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Arkansas | 27 min |
| May 24, 10:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Arkansas | 24 min |
| May 24, 10:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 36 min |
| May 24, 11:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lawrence, Randolph | 29 min |
| May 24, 11:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Calhoun | 51 min |
| May 24, 11:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 45 min |
| May 25, 3:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LZK | Baxter, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 17 more | 48 hr |
| May 25, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Polk | 47 min |
| May 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 20 min |
| May 25, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 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.