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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 5, 1995Desha County, Lincoln County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 1995, 5:55 AM CDT for Desha County, Lincoln County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1995, 5:55 AM CDT (10:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Desha County, AR, Lincoln County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1455 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
5.5

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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, Jul 4, 11:55 PM CDT, 6 hours before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone60 min
Jul 4, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton58 min
Jul 4, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion65 min
Jul 4, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin61 min
Jul 4, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Searcy56 min
Jul 4, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan95 min
Jul 4, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk, Scott95 min
Jul 4, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone67 min
Jul 4, 10:31 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKStone29 min
Jul 4, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland66 min
Jul 4, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Pope, Yell66 min
Jul 4, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren66 min
Jul 4, 11:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Perry67 min
Jul 4, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski, Saline80 min
Jul 4, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne80 min
Jul 4, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPike59 min
Jul 4, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence55 min
Jul 4, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland27 min
Jul 5, 12:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite58 min
Jul 5, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke58 min
Jul 5, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson59 min
Jul 5, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence39 min
Jul 5, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie, Woodruff62 min
Jul 5, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski30 min
Jul 5, 12:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Jefferson51 min
Jul 5, 4:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCalhoun, Cleveland3 hr
Jul 5, 4:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.