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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 4, 1993Van Buren County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jan 4, 1993, 8:13 AM CST for Van Buren County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 4, 1993, 8:13 AM CST (14:13 UTC)
Expired
Jan 4, 1993, 11:15 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Van Buren County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-01-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-01-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -118 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 7:27 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKPope, Yell3 hr
Jan 4, 8:13 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKNewton3 hr
Jan 4, 8:22 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKSearcy3 hr

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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.