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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 26, 202347 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this wind advisory at Feb 26, 2023, 3:30 AM CST for 47 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Feb 26, 2023, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 26, 2023, 3:30 AM CST (09:30 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 26, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 27, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
All 47 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Marion County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2023-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2023-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 3:30 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLZKArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 28 more7 hr
Feb 26, 10:20 AM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryLZKCalhoun, Ouachita27 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Arkansas, 2023Every wind advisory in 2023

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.