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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 25, 202127 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this heat advisory at Jul 25, 2021, 2:35 PM CDT for 27 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Jul 26, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 2021, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 26, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 26, 2021, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
All 27 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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 nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2021-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1981 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2021-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1981 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 3:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPolk47 min
Jul 25, 4:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKClark42 min
Jul 25, 6:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSaline43 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.