[PBARC] Special Weather Statement

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
920 PM CST WED MAR 3 2004

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-
040800-
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-
920 PM CST WED MAR 3 2004

..SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT...

A WARM FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY EVENING.
WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS NOTED SOUTH OF THE FRONT. MEANWHILE...
A STORM SYSTEM WAS IN THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES...AND WAS
HEADING EAST. THE SYSTEM WILL HEAD INTO AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...
WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING. THE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO BECOME
SEVERE.

IT APPEARS THAT THURSDAY WILL START OFF RATHER QUIET. SHOWERS AND A
FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP MOSTLY NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT
ACROSS ARKANSAS...WITH THE PRECIPITATION IN NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE
STATE. THERE WILL BE QUITE A BIT OF FOG NORTH OF THE FRONT AS WELL.
FARTHER SOUTH...TEMPERATURES WILL WARM WELL INTO THE 60S AND LOWER
70S WITH NOT MUCH PRECIPITATION THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS.

AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...THE STORM SYSTEM WILL HEAD ACROSS
TEXAS INTO OKLAHOMA. A COLD FRONT WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE
SYSTEM...WITH STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN CENTRAL TEXAS. THE STORMS WILL HEAD
NORTHEAST...AND WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS DURING THE
LATE AFTERNOON HOURS.

THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS THURSDAY NIGHT. IT APPEARS
THAT SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MOST LIKELY ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
SECTIONS OF THE STATE. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...WITH TORNADOES POSSIBLE AS WELL.

SHOULD THIS EVENT MATERIALIZE...IT WILL BE THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT
EVENT OF THE SEVERE WEATHER SEASON. PEOPLE ARE ADVISED TO
PREPARE FOR SEVERE STORMS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY
NIGHT. CHECK THE LATEST FORECAST...AND LOOK FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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73,
Glenn