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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 511, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 9, 20235 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2023, 8:30 PM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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: Aug 9, 2023, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2023, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fulton County, AR, Izard County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Sharp County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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
Aug 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 1135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.7

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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 Aug 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 3:56 AM CDT, 16 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 8:01 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 8:06 PM CDT, 24 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
Aug 9, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Marion	49 min
Aug 9, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Sharp	25 min
Aug 9, 8:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion	3 hr
Aug 9, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Jackson, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp	38 min
Aug 9, 9:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp and 1 more	2 hr
Aug 9, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LZK	Jackson, Lawrence, Randolph	16 min
Aug 9, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy	11 min
Aug 9, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Searcy, Stone	42 min
Aug 9, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	33 min
Aug 9, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	37 min
Aug 9, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	27 min
Aug 9, 11:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	34 min
Aug 9, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	46 min
Aug 9, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Marion, Newton, Searcy	19 min
Aug 10, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	43 min
Aug 10, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Van Buren	40 min
Aug 10, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson	23 min
Aug 10, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Van Buren, White	39 min
Aug 10, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Jackson, White, Woodruff	52 min
Aug 10, 1:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	27 min
Aug 10, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Van Buren, White	44 min
Aug 10, 2:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Searcy, Stone	3 hr
Aug 10, 2:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	37 min
Aug 10, 3:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Woodruff	38 min
Aug 10, 4:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Stone	2 hr
Aug 10, 4:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Jackson	2 hr
Aug 10, 7:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Izard, Jackson, Searcy, Stone	3 hr
Aug 10, 2:08 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 41 more	30 hr
Aug 10, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	37 min
Aug 10, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	31 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.