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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 23, 1996Cleveland County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1996, 12:24 AM CDT for Cleveland County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 23, 1996, 12:24 AM CDT (05:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1996, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Cleveland County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 1996-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2439 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 1996-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke48 min
Jul 22, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski44 min
Jul 22, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite52 min
Jul 22, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin, Johnson48 min
Jul 22, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski50 min
Jul 22, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite63 min
Jul 22, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin, Johnson63 min
Jul 22, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren53 min
Jul 22, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski29 min
Jul 22, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson57 min
Jul 22, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring43 min
Jul 22, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring64 min
Jul 23, 12:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.