1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 18, 12:55 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 155 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN SETTING UP FOR THE SHORT TERM. CURRENTLY...SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT WERE LEFT OVER FROM CONVECTION LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING ACTING TO PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED/SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...MOSTLY OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF ARKANSAS. APPROACHING COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM SOUTHERN MISSOURI TO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA WILL ALSO AIDE IN DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. FRONT WILL MAKE ITS WAY INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS TONIGHT...AND TOWARD SOUTHERN ARKANSAS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. SHORT RANGE MODELS HAVE BEEN KEYING IN ON MCS DEVELOPING INVOF THE PANHANDLES AREA TONIGHT... AND MOVING THE SYSTEM THROUGH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA BEFORE DYING OUT SATURDAY MORNING. LOOKS AS THOUGH REMNANTS OF THE SYSTEM WILL MAKE IT INTO SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS BY LATE SATURDAY MORNING AND INTO SATURDAY AFTERNOON. INTERACTING WITH THE HEATING OF THE DAY...THIS WILL ACT TO TOUCH OFF ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION. FRONT IS EXPECTED TO WOBBLE AROUND CENTRAL/SOUTHERN ARKANSAS FOR MUCH OF THE SHORT TERM. SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEMS WILL MOVE ACROSS...ALLOWING FOR A CONTINUED CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE PERIOD. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ENHANCED BY INTERACTION WITH DAYTIME HEATING. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A FEW ISOLATED STRONG STORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. ALSO...WITH SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS OKLAHOMA ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND INTERACTING WITH SURFACE BOUNDARY...POTENTIAL MCS COULD OCCUR AND SCRAPE SOUTHERN ARKANSAS SUNDAY MORNING. WITH PRECIPITABLE WATERS IN THE 1.5 TO 2 INCH RANGE...AND WITH MCS POTENTIAL OVER THE SOUTHWEST...SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. WILL CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT THIS IN HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. LOOKS AS THOUGH SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL ATTEMPT TO MOVE BACK TO THE NORTH ON MONDAY...BUT WITH MORE UPPER SYSTEMS APPROACHING...RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE. ONE FINAL CONCERN...AND THIS DEALS WITH POTENTIAL HEAT INDEX PROBLEMS. ALTHOUGH HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA IS NOWHERE NEAR BEING MET...DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S AND LOWER 70S...AND AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S TO NEAR 90...COULD PUSH HEAT INDEX VALUES TO NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE 100 DEGREES. THE AREA MOST LIKELY AFFECTED WOULD BE SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. SUCCEEDING SHIFTS WILL NEED TO MONITOR AND PERHAPS HIGHLIGHT THIS IN THE FORECAST IF THE SITUATION WARRANTS. && .LONG TERM...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY UNUSUALLY ACTIVE EARLY SUMMER PATTERN TO CONTINUE MOST OF NEXT WEEK AS THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE REMAINS WEAK AND 500 MB HEIGHTS IN THE AREA REMAIN IN THE MID 580S OR SO. APPEARS FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL BE STALLED ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS MONDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY AND GFS HINTS AT A COUPLE OF MCS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. ENHANCED POPS TO 40 PERCENT IN THE NORTH TO REFLECT THIS ALTHOUGH TIMING AND LOCATION WILL BE HIGHLY SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY THEN. GENERALLY WENT WITH 30 PERCENT POPS ELSEWHERE. FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...AREA MAY BE IN LULL BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE TROPICAL AIR MASS WILL STILL BE IN PLACE SO LEFT 20 POPS GOING. THEN ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES CLOSE TO THE AREA FRIDAY SO PUT IN 30 PERCENT POPS FOR THAT. I WAS SO CONFIDENT THAT THERE WILL BE SOME RAIN GOING ON IN EACH PERIOD TO USE COVERAGE WORDING IN THE EXTENDED. KEPT MIN TEMP FORECASTS AS THEY WERE BUT SHADED MAXES DOWN A CATEGORY OR SO IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS TO FIT MEX AND EXTENDED GUIDANCE. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 74 87 67 86 / 50 40 30 30 HARRISON AR 64 78 60 80 / 50 30 30 30 HOT SPRINGS AR 73 88 68 87 / 50 40 30 40 PINE BLUFF AR 74 88 68 87 / 50 40 30 30 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 65 79 61 81 / 50 30 30 30 MONTICELLO AR 74 89 69 87 / 40 40 30 40 SEARCY AR 72 86 66 85 / 50 30 30 30 MOUNT IDA AR 72 87 68 87 / 50 40 30 40 RUSSELLVILLE AR 71 85 65 85 / 50 30 30 30 && SHORT TERM 57/LONG TERM 29
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 912 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-191000- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 912 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT TWO OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS LIE ACROSS ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. THEY WILL LAY THE GROUND WORK FOR POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY ACROSS MOSTLY NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ONE BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM NEAR MENA TO RUSSELLVILLE TO BATESVILLE. THE OTHER WAS IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS. THESE MAY BECOME THE FOCUS POINT FOR STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL BE RUNNING INTO EXTREMELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR AND WHEN HEATING IS THROWN INTO THE MIX...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY CONCERN. THE AREA MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO SEVERE WEATHER TODAY WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM ARKADELPHIA TO PINE BLUFF TO STUTTGART. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE ISOLATED TO THE SOUTH OF THIS LINE BUT ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT IN THIS AREA TOO. WHAT STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ARE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AND MOVE EASTWARD EARLY THIS EVENING AS THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WEAKEN AND THE ATMOSPHERE BEGINS TO COOL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A COLD FRONT MAY ENTER ARKANSAS SATURDAY AND HANG AROUND THE AREA. THERE MAY BE OTHER OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EVERY DAY DURING THE PERIOD WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE COULD BE A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ANY TIME DURING THE PERIOD. THE BEST CHANCE FOR ANY SEVERE STORMS WOULD BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ALSO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS. LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD RESULT ESPECIALLY WHERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREAS OR A THUNDERSTORM SITS IN ONE LOCATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 29
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:29 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
An off duty police officer was struck by lightning, and was not seriously injured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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