Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Dec 24, 1987, 9:25 PM CST for Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 1987, 9:25 PM CST (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 1987, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saline County, AR
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 24, 4:55 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 454 PM CST THU DEC 24 1987 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER ARKANSAS... PERSISTENT RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS HAVE OCCURRED IN A BAND FROM SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THROUGH THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE INTO EASTERN ARKANSAS TODAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 1/2 INCHES HAVE BEEN COMMON...BUT THERE HAVE BEEN LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS. THE LARGEST TOTAL REPORTED THUS FAR HAS BEEN 4 INCHES AT A GAGE IN WEST LITTLE ROCK. STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED AT A NUMBER OF LOCATIONS AND SOME OF THE SMALLER CREEKS HAVE BEEN SWOLLEN BY THE RAINS. AS OF 450 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE RAIN FALLING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL...AND EASTERN ARKANSAS. < THIS SITUATION WILL BE WATCHED CLOSELY TONIGHT SINCE THE GROUND HAS NOW BEEN COMPLETELY SATURATED. RESIDENTS OF AREAS WHICH HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN TODAY SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE WEATHER TONIGHT JIN CASE FLASH FLOOD WATCHES OR WARNINGS BECOME NECESSARY. 28
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 6:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Prairie | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Prairie, Woodruff | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 3 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.