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Special Weather Statement, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 7, 2026Boone County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2026, 6:21 PM CDT for Boone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 7, 2026, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2026, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 50

County Boone County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 1156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.6

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 7, 12:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 12:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:27 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:40 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:52 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:55 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:15 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:21 PM CDT, 0 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 6, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Marion, Searcy	18 min
Aug 6, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	25 min
Aug 6, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Marion	37 min
Aug 6, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter	33 min
Aug 6, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	28 min
Aug 6, 8:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	33 min
Aug 6, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	37 min
Aug 6, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	35 min
Aug 6, 8:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	26 min
Aug 6, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	23 min
Aug 6, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton, Pope, Searcy	46 min
Aug 6, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry	46 min
Aug 7, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	30 min
Aug 7, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Yell	23 min
Aug 7, 4:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	28 min
Aug 7, 5:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	35 min
Aug 7, 2:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Montgomery	26 min
Aug 7, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	31 min
Aug 7, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland	37 min
Aug 7, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pike	49 min
Aug 7, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland	47 min
Aug 7, 3:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Hot Spring	30 min
Aug 7, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pike	32 min
Aug 7, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	29 min
Aug 7, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	44 min
Aug 7, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	26 min
Aug 7, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland	36 min
Aug 7, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pike	32 min
Aug 7, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson	14 min
Aug 7, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	24 min
Aug 7, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	35 min
Aug 7, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	37 min
Aug 7, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	45 min
Aug 7, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	34 min
Aug 7, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	28 min
Aug 7, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	23 min
Aug 7, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	33 min
Aug 7, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	33 min
Aug 7, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley	31 min
Aug 7, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	26 min
Aug 7, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk, Scott	21 min
Aug 7, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	50 min
Aug 7, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	48 min
Aug 7, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	14 min
Aug 7, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry, Pope, Yell	17 min
Aug 7, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	35 min
Aug 7, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew, Lincoln	22 min
Aug 7, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk, Scott	53 min
Aug 7, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Marion	50 min
Aug 7, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	45 min
Aug 7, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Calhoun	52 min
Aug 7, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	43 min
Aug 7, 6:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Polk	3 hr
Aug 7, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	25 min
Aug 7, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	23 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.