Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996

Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 30, 1996Stone County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1996, 4:22 PM CDT for Stone 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
Jul 30, 1996, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Stone County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 652 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 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
652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 302122
FFWLIT
ARC137-310030-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
422 PM CDT TUE JUL 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 
   ...STONE COUNTY
 
AT 420 PM CDT...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF STONE
COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL IN AN AREA JUST SOUTH OF MOUNTAIN
VIEW RANGE UPWARDS TO NEAR 4 INCHES. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS
WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY...AND WILL MOVE
OVER THE SAME AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
34

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 12:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKMarion2 hr
Jul 30, 2:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Saline3 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.