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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 25, 2021Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2021, 12:10 AM CDT for Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2021, 12:10 AM CDT (05:10 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2021, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

County Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 24, 11:23 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
1123 PM CDT Wed Mar 24 2021

ARZ052>054-250515-
Hot Spring AR-Pike AR-Clark AR-
1123 PM CDT Wed Mar 24 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN CLARK...SOUTHEASTERN
PIKE AND WEST CENTRAL HOT SPRING COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 AM CDT...

At 1123 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northeast of Blevins, or 9 miles northwest of Prescott, moving
north at 50 mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Okolona...                        DeGray Lake State Park...
Halfway...                        Lofton...
Delight...                        Bismarck...
Antoine...                        Alpine...
Bonnerdale...                     Shawmut...
Hollywood...                      Point Cedar...
Pisgah...

LAT...LON 3440 9338 3439 9305 3392 9333 3394 9334
      3396 9338 3395 9342 3396 9347 3394 9351
      3396 9356
TIME...MOT...LOC 0423Z 201DEG 44KT 3392 9345

Cavanaugh

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 12:10 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 9:02 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Prairie	21 days
Mar 24, 9:03 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	21 days
Mar 24, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pike	44 min
Mar 24, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	38 min
Mar 24, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark	52 min
Mar 24, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	49 min
Mar 24, 11:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	2 hr
Mar 25, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline, Yell	19 min
Mar 25, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	45 min
Mar 25, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	44 min
Mar 25, 1:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Prairie	28 min
Mar 25, 1:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson	25 min
Mar 25, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	34 min
Mar 25, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke	27 min
Mar 25, 1:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	50 min
Mar 25, 3:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	40 min
Mar 25, 7:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	35 min
Mar 25, 8:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Perry	60 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.