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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 1, 202514 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this wind advisory at Apr 1, 2025, 2:04 PM CDT for 14 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Apr 2, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 1, 2025, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 2, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 3, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Randolph County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 1, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 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
Apr 1, 9:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	5 days
Apr 1, 9:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	6 days
Apr 1, 10:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	19 days
Apr 1, 10:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence	40 days
Apr 1, 10:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	White, Woodruff	126 days
Apr 1, 10:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	White	12 days
Apr 1, 10:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Jackson, Woodruff	41 days
Apr 1, 10:57 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	6 days
Apr 1, 10:57 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	20 days
Apr 1, 10:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Saline	5 days
Apr 1, 11:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	109 days
Apr 1, 11:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	38 days
Apr 1, 11:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Union	44 days
Apr 1, 11:39 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Prairie	42 days

Nearby

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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.