Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 1992, 11:25 PM CDT for Baxter County, Izard County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1992, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1992, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baxter County, AR, Izard County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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, Aug 2, 6:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
630 PM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992
AT 6:30 PM CDT...AN ISOLATED BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN JACKSON
COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWPORT. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10
MILES AN HOUR.
WITHIN THE PAST HOUR 1/2 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT TUCKERMAN.
O
OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED WITHIN A 40 MILE WIDE AREA FROM
MAMMOTH SPRING TO AUGUSTA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR.
103Local storm report, Aug 2, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
810 PM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992
REPORTS FOR TODAY...AUGUST 2ND 1992.
442 PM CDT...IZARD COUNTY...TREES BLOWN DOWN ACROSS AR HWY 223 AT
PINEVILLE...REPORT FROM ARKANSAS STATE POLICE.
442 PM CDT...IZARD COUNTY...TREES BLOWN DOWN ACROSS AR HWY 9 AT
SYLAMORE...REPORT FROM ARKANSAS STATE POLICE.
608 PM CDT...JACKSON COUNTY...3/4-INCH DIAMETER HAIL...INTERSECTION OF
\ AR HWYS 37 AND 17...3 MILES SE OF ELGIN...REPORT FROM
THE PUBLIC.
614 PM CDT...JACKSON COUNTY...MARBLE SIZE HAIL...AT TUCKERMAN...REPORT
FROM ARKANSAS STATE POLICE.Special weather statement, Aug 2, 9:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
ARZ001-030345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR 945 PM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992 AT 940 PM CDT RADAR WAS SHOWING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST BENTON COUNTY ARKANSAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM IN GENTRY ARKNASAS AT 930 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES INTO NORTH WASHINGTON COUNTY ARKANSAS DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 10:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
ARZ002-003-030415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1009 PM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992 AT 1005 PM CDT RADAR DETECTED A VERY STRONG STORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF JASPER...IN NEWTON COUNTY...NEAR HASTY. ALTHOUGH NOT SEVERE YET... THIS STORM IS DUMPING HEAVY RAINS OVER THE BUFFALO RIVER BASIN. ANY PERSONS CAMPING NEAR THE BUFFALO RIVER DOWNSTREAM FROM HASTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A RAPID RISE IN WATER. MOVEMENT WAS TO T,HE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY IF RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. 32
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 12:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Stone | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Carroll | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Yell | 68 min |
| Aug 3, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 69 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.