Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Mar 7, 1990, 9:55 PM CST for Clark County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1990, 9:55 PM CST (03:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1990, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 469 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 562 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 080356 FFWLIT ARC019-080600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 955 PM CST WED MAR 7 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...CLARK COUNTY AT 950 PM CST...FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN CLARK COUNTY. STATE HIGHWAYS 7 AND 8 EAST OF ARKADELPHIA HAVE BEEN BARRICADED DUE TO HIGH WATER. STATE HIGHWAY 53 BETWEEN GURDON AND INTERSTATE 30 WAS ALSO FLOODED. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...SO ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL BE MOVING ACROSS CLARK COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 28
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, Mar 7, 5:45 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
ARC113-127-OKC079-080045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 542 PM CST WED MAR 7 1990 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING INTO LE FLORE COUNTY OKLAHOMA... AT 535 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILE SOUTHWEST OF PAGE OKLAHOMA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PEOP LE IN SOUTHERN LE FLORE...POLK AND SCOTT COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 6:45 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
OKZ020-ARZ004-007-080145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 640 PM CST WED MAR 7 1990 ...THE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTH SEBASTIAN COUNTY HAS WEAKENED... AT 635 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A THUNDERSHOWER IN SOUTH SEBASTIAN COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREENWOOD. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED IN THE PAST 15 MINUTES. IT IS PRODUCING ONLY MODERATE RAINFALL RATES AND OCCASIONAL DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IT IS NO >LONGER PRODUCING HAIL. THE THUNDERSHOWER IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 11:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.