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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 3, 1990Calhoun County, Ouachita County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1990, 9:05 AM CDT for Calhoun County, Ouachita County, Arkansas. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1990, 9:05 AM CDT (14:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1990, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Calhoun County, AR, Ouachita 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 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 3592 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 10.6

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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, Jun 3, 3:06 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 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
Jun 2, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant	39 min
Jun 2, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jefferson	51 min
Jun 2, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie	48 min
Jun 2, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	28 min
Jun 2, 9:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant	51 min
Jun 2, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jefferson	33 min
Jun 2, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	40 min
Jun 3, 3:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	3 hr
Jun 3, 5:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita, Union	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Ashley	66 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1990 Every 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.