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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 1990, 2:36 PM CDT for Independence County, Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1990, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1990, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Independence County, AR, Jackson 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 3610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 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
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Searcy | 2 hr |
| May 19, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Stone | 2 hr |
| May 19, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 53 min |
| May 19, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 42 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.