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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 22, 20228 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2022, 2:44 AM CST for 8 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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: Feb 22, 2022, 2:44 AM CST (08:44 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2022, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Conway County, AR, Garland County, AR, Logan County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Yell County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 31, 10:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	353 days
Feb 21, 8:49 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 Feb 21, 11:19 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 11:19 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 22, 12:21 AM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 22, 12:41 AM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 22, 1:35 AM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 22, 1:42 AM CST, 1 hour 2 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
Feb 21, 7:58 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	112 days
Feb 22, 12:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton	44 min
Feb 22, 12:21 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	24 min
Feb 22, 12:41 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	34 min
Feb 22, 1:35 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	40 min
Feb 22, 1:42 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan, Scott	33 min
Feb 22, 2:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Independence, Izard, Marion, Searcy, Stone and 1 more	44 min
Feb 22, 2:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	28 min
Feb 22, 2:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope, Searcy and 2 more	34 min
Feb 22, 3:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Perry, Pope and 4 more	51 min
Feb 22, 4:06 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne, Independence	24 min
Feb 22, 3:09 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Garland and 17 more	51 hr
Feb 22, 3:09 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lonoke and 6 more	13 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.