Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1991, 7:53 AM CDT for Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1991, 7:53 AM CDT (12:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1991, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Drew County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 031254 FFWLIT ARC043-031500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 753 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS ...DREW COUNTY AT 750 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...INCLUDING DREW COUNTY. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM HEAVY RAINS EARLIER IN THE WEEK...THIS NEW ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING. WARREN RECEIVED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR BETWEEN 630 AND 730 THIS MORNING AND SOME OF THIS HEAVIER RAIN HAS MOVED INTO DREW 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. 16
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 3, 2:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
ARZ005-007-008-009-010-011-030945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 248 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 AM FOR PARTS OF WESTERN ARKANSAS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM FOR PARTS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED EARLIER TONIGHT FROM NORTHERN TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EASTWARD TOWARD ARKANSAS AND SHOULD BE IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE STATE BY 4 AM. ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER...LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO A GOOD POSSIBILITY IN WEST AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 6 AM OR BEFORE. 16
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
ARZ005-030930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 334 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 1991 ...THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD MORRILTON... AT 330 AM A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN...DANG:EROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WAS MOVING TOWARD MORRILTON IN CONWAY COUNTY. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF SOME MORRILTON STREETS IS POSSIBLE AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH BETWEEN 335 AND 415 AM. 16
Special weather statement, May 3, 7:10 AM CDT, 43 minutes before
ARZ005-007-008-009-010-011-014-015-016-031515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 709 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 255 NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS...HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS UNTIL 11 AM... AT 705 AM A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM CENTRAL ARKANSAS SOUTHWARD THROUGH MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING FROM CLEVELAND COUNTY SOUTHWARD THROUGH CALHOUN AND UNION COUNTIES. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 AM FOR CALHOUN AND UNION COUNTIES. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE IN SOUTH ARKANSAS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL TAPER OFF THIS AFTERNOON. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT 10 AM OR BEFORE. 16
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Union | 115 min |
| May 3, 7:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Bradley | 2 hr |
| May 3, 8:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Ashley, Chicot | 3 hr |
| May 3, 8:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Desha | 3 hr |
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.