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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 30, 1996Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1996, 12:13 AM CDT for Marion 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 30, 1996, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1996, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 1996-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 120 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 1996-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 161 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
120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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 30, 2:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Saline3 hr
Jul 30, 4:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKStone3 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.