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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2021, 2:21 AM CDT for Desha County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 31, 2021, 2:21 AM CDT (07:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2021, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
County Desha County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
128
WWUS84 KLZK 310721
SPSLZK
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
221 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021
ARZ057-064-065-310745-
Lincoln AR-Desha AR-Arkansas AR-
221 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN DESHA...EAST CENTRAL
LINCOLN AND SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS COUNTIES UNTIL 245 AM CDT...
At 221 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Gillett, or 16 miles northeast of Dumas, moving east at 50 mph.
Half inch hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Gillett... Merrisach Lake...
Trusten Holder WMA... Arkansas Post...
Weber... Tichnor...
LAT...LON 3402 9090 3402 9099 3398 9096 3396 9097
3397 9100 3400 9102 3398 9108 3396 9109
3401 9146 3408 9145 3409 9143 3419 9144
3421 9107 3420 9109 3414 9108 3412 9111
3412 9096 3409 9092 3409 9087
TIME...MOT...LOC 0721Z 272DEG 45KT 3410 9136
$$
GoudswardThe office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha | 22 min |
| Mar 30, 11:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Clark | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 1:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Ouachita | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 2:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Drew | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland, Desha, Drew | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 4:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Drew | 13 min |
| Mar 31, 4:17 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Jackson | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:17 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson and 7 more | 29 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:38 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 30 more | 24 hr |
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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.