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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 3, 2024Garland County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2024, 5:46 AM CDT for Garland County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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
May 3, 2024, 5:46 AM CDT (10:46 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2024, 6:14 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 281 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2024-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 59 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2024-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 3:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJohnson24 min
May 3, 3:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKScott23 min
May 3, 3:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPolk, Scott34 min
May 3, 4:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMontgomery39 min
May 3, 5:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGarland37 min
May 3, 5:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPike35 min
May 3, 5:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring, Montgomery46 min
May 3, 5:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKClark, Hot Spring25 min
May 3, 5:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKDallas31 min
May 3, 6:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGrant, Hot Spring, Saline32 min
May 3, 6:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleveland, Dallas32 min
May 3, 6:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKGrant, Pulaski32 min
May 3, 6:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleveland33 min
May 3, 7:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKOuachita33 min
May 3, 7:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJefferson39 min
May 3, 7:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLincoln31 min
May 3, 8:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJefferson28 min
May 3, 8:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKDrew50 min
May 3, 10:03 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLZKIndependence, Jackson, Lawrence23 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.