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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 20, 1990Garland County, Hot Spring County, Montgomery County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 20, 1990, 1:02 AM CDT for Garland County, Hot Spring County, Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 20, 1990, 1:02 AM CDT (06:02 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 1990, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Montgomery 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 268 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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, May 19, 7:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland	60 min
May 19, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Saline	59 min
May 19, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Van Buren	68 min
May 19, 8:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	4 hr
May 19, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	65 min
May 19, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring	65 min
May 19, 10:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Grant, Hot Spring	4 hr
May 19, 10:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark	4 hr
May 19, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	67 min
May 20, 1:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Grant	3 hr
May 20, 1:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark	3 hr
May 20, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Saline	57 min
May 20, 3:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Montgomery	2 hr
May 20, 3:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Grant	2 hr
May 20, 3:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland	2 hr
May 20, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	65 min
May 20, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Chicot	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.