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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 17, 2025Lawrence County, Randolph County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this wind advisory at Apr 17, 2025, 4:22 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Randolph County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 2025, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR

Counties Lawrence County, AR, Randolph County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 12:00Z on 2025-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2025-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 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
Apr 17, 1:50 PM CDTFlood WatchLZKBaxter, Boone, Fulton, Izard, Johnson, Logan and 10 more3 days
Apr 17, 4:10 PM CDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryLZKLawrence, Randolph4 hr

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.