Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1992, 12:39 AM CDT for Independence County, Stone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1992, 12:39 AM CDT (05:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1992, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Independence County, AR, Stone County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 030540 FFWLIT ARC063-137-030845- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1239 AM CDT MON AUG 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS ...INDEPENDENCE COUNTY...STONE COUNTY AT 1236 AM RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS OVER SOUTHERN IZARD COUNTY...NORTHERN STONE COUNTY AND NORTHWEST INDEPENDENCE COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN IZARD COUNTY...ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN MELBOURNE. INCREDIBLE NUMBERS OF LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. 32
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, 5 hours 55 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, 4 hours 29 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, 2 hours 52 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, 2 hours 29 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 2, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard | 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 |
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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.