Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Feb 27, 1987, 8:35 PM CST for Arkansas County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 1987, 8:35 PM CST (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1987, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Arkansas 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 7:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Ashley, Drew | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 12:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 12:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 7:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 21 min |
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.