A towering cumulus cloud produced a funnel cloud in Lonoke County on the 1st.
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A towering cumulus cloud produced a funnel cloud in Lonoke County on the 1st.
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 Jun 1, 5:48 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 648 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007 .AVIATION... CHANCES FOR TSTMS TONIGHT AND SAT MORNING AT KHRO AND KBPK WERE TIMED BASED ON THE INDICATIONS FROM THE NAM. ELSEWHERE...BELIEVE ANY CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT WILL WAIT UNTIL SAT AFTERNOON. OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORMS...EXPECT ONLY PATCHY LOWER CLOUDS AND BKN-OVC CS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 300 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT MCS MOVED INTO ARKANSAS FROM THE PLAINS EARLY THIS MORNING...AND WEAKENED RAPIDLY. A FEW SHOWERS/STORMS WERE RANDOMLY REDEVELOPING DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON...AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. OVERNIGHT...HAVE MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS IN THE FORECAST. HOWEVER...ANOTHER MCS SHOULD GET GOING IN THE PLAINS ONCE AGAIN...WITH PRECIPITATION NEARING NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TOWARD MORNING. NEW CONVECTION WILL BE ALONG/NEAR A WEAK COLD FRONT. THE FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THE STATE SATURDAY/SUNDAY...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST. IF THERE IS ANY SEVERE WEATHER...IT WILL BE ISOLATED. SEVERE WEATHER MORE LIKELY WELL TO THE NORTH WITH BETTER DYNAMICS SURROUNDING LOW PRESSURE. BY MONDAY...LOW PRESSURE WILL HAVE MOVED FROM THE NORTHERN PLAINS ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST AND INTO THE GREAT LAKES. RESULTING FLOW ALOFT WILL BE FROM THE NORTHWEST...WHICH WILL DRIVE THE FRONT TO THE SOUTH. PERIOD WILL END WITH DRY CONDITIONS. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD WILL BE PRETTY CLOSE TO NORMAL TO A LITTLE ABOVE NORMAL. (46) LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE UPPER FLOW WILL BE NORTHWESTERLY FOR A BRIEF PERIOD...FOLLOWED BY A QUICK TRANSITION TO ZONAL AND THEN TO SOUTHWESTERLY AS THE EASTERN RIDGE LOOKS TO REESTABLISH ITSELF. WAVES OF ENERGY WILL BE TRAVERSING THROUGH THE UPPER FLOW...WITHOUT VERY SPECIFIC TIMING. MOS NUMBERS SHOW A TENDENCY TO KEEP CLOSE TO THE CLIMATOLOGICAL POPS OR JUST A TAD UNDER. THE SURFACE PATTERN WILL START WITH INDICATIONS OF A WEAK BOUNDARY JUST HAVING GONE THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA. IT WILL NOT TAKE LONG FOR SOUTHERLY FETCH TO BRING MOISTURE BACK OVER THE STATE FROM THE GULF. THURSDAY MORNING WILL SHOW ANOTHER FRONT TAKING SHAPE OVER THE PLAINS...AND IT WILL BE POISED TO ENTER THE AREA BY THE END OF THE LONG TERM. NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURE RANGES ARE STILL IN ORDER. (32) && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 66 85 63 85 / 20 30 30 20 CAMDEN AR 67 87 66 87 / 10 30 30 30 HARRISON AR 65 80 62 83 / 20 50 30 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 66 85 66 86 / 20 40 30 30 LITTLE ROCK AR 67 86 66 87 / 10 30 30 30 MONTICELLO AR 66 88 66 88 / 10 20 30 30 MOUNT IDA AR 65 85 65 86 / 20 40 30 30 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 63 81 62 83 / 20 50 30 10 NEWPORT AR 67 85 64 85 / 10 30 30 20 PINE BLUFF AR 67 88 66 87 / 10 20 30 30 RUSSELLVILLE AR 65 84 64 85 / 20 40 30 20 SEARCY AR 67 86 65 86 / 10 30 30 30 STUTTGART AR 67 87 66 87 / 10 30 30 30 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && AVIATION...28
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1100 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-021000- 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- 1100 AM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM THE PLAINS EARLY THIS MORNING. THE STORMS RAPIDLY WEAKENED...BUT LEFT AN OUTFLOW OF COOLER AND DRIER AIR. AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...THIS OUTFLOW WILL INTERACT WITH WARMER AND MORE HUMID AIR TO ITS EAST...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP. IT APPEARS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST LIKELY TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF LITTLE ROCK THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. SOME HAIL MAY OCCUR AS WELL. STORMS THAT POP UP WILL NOT MOVE MUCH... WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN ISOLATED AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A LARGE STORM SYSTEM IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS WILL MOVE SLOWLY TO THE EAST THIS WEEKEND. AS IT DOES SO...A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO ARKANSAS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. THE FRONT WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY MOVE SOUTH OF ARKANSAS BY MONDAY...WITH DECREASING RAIN CHANCES FOR THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. THE THREAT FOR ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN LOW THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED...WITH ANY SEVERE WEATHER REMAINING ISOLATED. VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 44/38/46
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:00 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was sighted and photographed by a number of people, approximately 10 miles south of Lonoke.
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