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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 11, 2021Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at May 11, 2021, 5:07 AM CDT for Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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 11, 2021, 5:07 AM CDT (10:07 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2021, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

County Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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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.

NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 11, 4:17 AM CDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 4:17 AM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 4:24 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
424 AM CDT Tue May 11 2021

ARZ003>008-012>017-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-121000-
Boone-Marion-Baxter-Fulton-Sharp-Randolph-Newton-Searcy-Stone-
Izard-Independence-Lawrence-Johnson-Pope-Van Buren-Cleburne-
Jackson-Logan-Conway-Faulkner-White-Woodruff-Scott-Yell-Perry-
Polk-Montgomery-Garland-Saline-Pulaski-Lonoke-Prairie-Monroe-Pike-
Clark-Hot Spring-Grant-Jefferson-Arkansas-Dallas-Cleveland-
Lincoln-Desha-Ouachita-Calhoun-Bradley-Drew-
424 AM CDT Tue May 11 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms will increase through the day and, while
some hail is possible in storms, widespread severe weather is not
expected. Rain may be heavy at times and localized flooding will
also be possible, especially over southern Arkansas.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday Through Monday

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.Spotter Information Statement...

Spotter activation will not be needed.

&&

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DTC/46

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 11, 5:07 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
May 10, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	37 min
May 10, 10:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	21 min
May 11, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pike	31 min
May 11, 12:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	26 min
May 11, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	23 min
May 11, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	49 min
May 11, 1:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	23 min
May 11, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	32 min
May 11, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	30 min
May 11, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Montgomery	25 min
May 11, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	32 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.