1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Nov 18, 4:00 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 400 PM CST TUE NOV 18 2003 ACTIVE AFTERNOON AHEAD OF COLD FRONT JUST NOW REACHING THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE STATE. TEMPERATURES REACHED THE LOWER TO MID 70S IN THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON. COLD AIR ALOFT WITH UPPER TROUGH LEADING TO DESTABLIZATION THIS AFTERNOON. COLD FRONT GENERATING STRONG WINDS WITH TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT...SO EXPECT BREEZY CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER...DO NOT FEEL A WIND ADVISORY IN NECESSARY AS STRONG WINDS WILL ONLY BE FOR A FEW HOURS AND WILL DECREASE THROUGH THE NIGHT. NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS SAW HIGH RAINFALL AMOUNTS MONDAY EVENING/OVERNIGHT...BUT DO NOT THINK RAINFALL AMOUNTS TONIGHT WILL BE AS LARGE. AREA OF CONVECTION WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH THE EVENING...WITH COLD FRONT HELPING TO CLEAR SKIES AND LOWER DEW POINTS/TEMPERATURES. HIGH PRESSURE FOLLOWS WEDNESDAY...WITH CLEAR CONDITIONS AND SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. NEXT FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA LATE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MODELS ARE SHOWING COLD AIR FROM CANADA MOVING SOUTH...BUT DID NOT BUY INTO EXTREME TEMPS YET. HRO 42 64 41 70 / 80 0 0 0 LIT 47 67 43 71 / 70 0 0 0 HOT 47 68 43 72 / 70 0 0 0 PBF 48 69 43 72 / 70 0 0 0 .LZK...NONE. 58
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-191100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1030 AM CST TUE NOV 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE INTO THE STATE WITH VERY COLD AIR ALOFT. A COLD FRONT WILL ACCOMPANY THIS LOW ACROSS ARKANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY RANDOMLY DEVELOP. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER. ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD DIMINISH EARLY TONIGHT WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING AND THE MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT OUT OF THE AREA. PEOPLE ACROSS ARKANSAS ARE ADVISED TO CONTINUE MONITORING THE WEATHER TODAY. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS FOR THE MOST UP TO DATE INFORMATION FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN FOR SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. MONDAY WILL BE DRY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ANYWHERE IN ARKANSAS. 29
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
407 PM CST TUE NOV 18 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0305 PM BATES AR .75 INCH HAIL
11/18/03 SCOTT REPORTED BY GOVERNMENT
OFFICIAL
0320 PM IONE AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
11/18/03 LOGAN REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
28PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
423 PM CST TUE NOV 18 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM BLUE BALL AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
11/18/03 SCOTT REPORTED BY PUBLIC
28The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Winds gusts up to 45 mph were reported 2 miles east of Sims. The winds knocked down a few trees in the area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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