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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 12, 1994Lonoke County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Apr 12, 1994, 12:26 AM CDT for Lonoke County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 12, 1994, 12:26 AM CDT (05:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1994, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Lonoke County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 294 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 00:00Z on 1994-04-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 405 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 00:00Z on 1994-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 394 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
394 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
646 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.5

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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
Apr 11, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark54 min
Apr 11, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring51 min
Apr 11, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKNewton56 min
Apr 11, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy51 min
Apr 12, 12:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPulaski3 hr
Apr 12, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Desha, Lincoln40 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.