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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Apr 12, 2022, 1:07 AM CDT for Woodruff 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
- Apr 12, 2022, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2022, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Hail
- 0.50 in
- Wind
- 30
County Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:11 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Apr 12, 12:57 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 12:57 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Little Rock AR 336 AM CDT Mon Apr 11 2022 ARZ004>008-014>017-024-025-031>034-039-042>047-052>057-062>069- 103-112-113-121>123-130-137-138-140-141-203-212-213-221>223-230- 237-238-240-241-313-340-341-121000- Marion-Baxter-Fulton-Sharp-Randolph-Stone-Izard-Independence- Lawrence-Cleburne-Jackson-Conway-Faulkner-White-Woodruff-Perry- Garland-Saline-Pulaski-Lonoke-Prairie-Monroe-Pike-Clark- Hot Spring-Grant-Jefferson-Arkansas-Dallas-Cleveland-Lincoln- Desha-Ouachita-Calhoun-Bradley-Drew-Boone County Except Southwest- Newton County Higher Elevations-Searcy County Lower Elevations- Southern Johnson County-Southern Pope County- Southeast Van Buren County-Western and Northern Logan County- Northern Scott County-Northwest Yell County- Polk County Lower Elevations- Central and Eastern Montgomery County- Boone County Higher Elevations-Newton County Lower Elevations- Northwest Searcy County Higher Elevations- Johnson County Higher Elevations-Pope County Higher Elevations- Van Buren County Higher Elevations- Southern and Eastern Logan County- Central and Southern Scott County-Yell Excluding Northwest- Northern Polk County Higher Elevations- Northern Montgomery County Higher Elevations- Eastern, Central, and Southern Searcy County Higher Elevations- Southeast Polk County Higher Elevations- Southwest Montgomery County Higher Elevations- 336 AM CDT Mon Apr 11 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Showers and thunderstorms return to the forecast today and tonight as a storm system moves into the state. Some strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible...initially across northern Arkansas this morning. Some damaging winds and some large hail will be possible this morning in this region of the state. By this afternoon and tonight...another round of strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible across the northwest two-thirds of the state...or along and south of a stalled frontal boundary across northwest Arkansas. Large hail will be possible with the strongest thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight...along with an increased threat for tornadoes. The threat for very large hail and tornadoes will be greatest with any discrete thunderstorms that develop south of the front...across western into portions of central...north central..and northeast portions of the area late this afternoon and evening. Damaging winds and locally heavy rainfall may also be seen with this activity. Expect the threat for strong to severe thunderstorms to decrease late tonight into early Tuesday. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday Through Sunday Showers and thunderstorms will return to the forecast for Tuesday afternoon and night as another system moves across the region. Some strong to severe thunderstorms are possible...with all modes of severe weather possible with the strongest storms. Another severe weather episode is likely Wednesday as a strong cold front sweeps through the state. All severe weather hazards...including damaging winds...hail...and a few tornadoes...will be possible. Details on timing will continue to be adjusted...however a first best guess suggests a window over northwest Arkansas Wednesday morning...and the coverage of severe weather spreading into central and southern Arkansas Wednesday afternoon and evening...respectively. There will also be potential for locally heavy rainfall resulting in some isolated flooding. Be sure to continue to monitor the latest official forecast information for details regarding this multi-day severe weather event. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation may be needed each day through Wednesday evening. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to http://weather.gov/lzk.
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 11, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 21 min |
| Apr 11, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 49 min |
| Apr 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry | 24 min |
| Apr 11, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 28 min |
| Apr 11, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Garland, Pulaski, Saline | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Apr 11, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Van Buren | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski, White | 40 min |
| Apr 11, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Pulaski, Saline | 28 min |
| Apr 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 32 min |
| Apr 11, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, White | 53 min |
| Apr 11, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, White | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 51 min |
| Apr 11, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, Van Buren, White, Woodruff | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, White | 45 min |
| Apr 11, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Woodruff | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White, Woodruff | 43 min |
| Apr 11, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White, Woodruff | 47 min |
| Apr 12, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 19 min |
| Apr 12, 12:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton | 37 min |
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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.