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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Little Rock, AR

March 14, 202647 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this wind advisory at Mar 14, 2026, 11:34 AM CDT for 47 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 15, 2026, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2026, 11:34 AM CDT (16:34 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2026, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 16, 2026, 5:57 AM CDT
In force: 23 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 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 1865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 334 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 Mar 14, 5:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 5:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 53 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
Mar 14, 11:34 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 41 more	46 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.