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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 28, 1996Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1996, 3:52 AM CDT for Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1996, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1996, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Jefferson County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 1996-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2600 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 1996-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2600 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
8.5

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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, May 27, 10:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner46 min
May 27, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff49 min
May 27, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKWhite69 min
May 27, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner37 min
May 27, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPolk39 min
May 27, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie46 min
May 27, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway42 min
May 27, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland53 min
May 27, 9:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGarland38 min
May 27, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKMonroe51 min
May 27, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKSaline53 min
May 27, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Pike50 min
May 27, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite49 min
May 27, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPulaski68 min
May 27, 10:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie, Woodruff4 hr
May 27, 10:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKMontgomery5 hr
May 27, 10:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKLonoke, Pulaski, Saline4 hr
May 27, 10:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland4 hr
May 27, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Saline59 min
May 27, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke54 min
May 27, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Hot Spring52 min
May 28, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland37 min
May 28, 12:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant35 min
May 28, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson27 min
May 28, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Saline30 min
May 28, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas53 min
May 28, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson67 min
May 28, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas68 min
May 28, 3:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson55 min

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.