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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 17, 2022Desha County, Lincoln County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2022, 2:03 PM CDT for Desha County, Lincoln County, Arkansas. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2022, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2022, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Desha County, AR, Lincoln County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 16, 6:21 PM CDT, 19 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 6:21 PM CDT, 19 hours 42 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
Apr 17, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	44 min
Apr 17, 6:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	50 min
Apr 17, 11:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	43 min
Apr 17, 11:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	31 min
Apr 17, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	33 min
Apr 17, 12:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	25 min
Apr 17, 12:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	38 min
Apr 17, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	22 min
Apr 17, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	28 min
Apr 17, 12:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	24 min
Apr 17, 12:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark	36 min
Apr 17, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan, Yell	34 min
Apr 17, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	33 min
Apr 17, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Dallas	31 min
Apr 17, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ouachita	29 min
Apr 17, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	25 min
Apr 17, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ouachita	20 min
Apr 17, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	33 min
Apr 17, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	41 min
Apr 17, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	33 min
Apr 17, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln	45 min
Apr 17, 1:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	24 min
Apr 17, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Ouachita	48 min
Apr 17, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Drew	41 min
Apr 17, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	24 min
Apr 17, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland	40 min
Apr 17, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	18 min
Apr 17, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	26 min
Apr 17, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	36 min
Apr 17, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	35 min
Apr 17, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	48 min
Apr 17, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lawrence, Sharp	46 min
Apr 17, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lawrence	28 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.