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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 26, 1996Newton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 1996, 10:24 AM CDT for Newton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 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
Sep 26, 1996, 10:24 AM CDT (15:24 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 1996, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Newton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 320 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 176 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 7:38 AM CDTTornado WarningLZKBoone47 min
Sep 26, 7:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion49 min
Sep 26, 8:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton, Searcy45 min
Sep 26, 9:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone47 min
Sep 26, 9:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard50 min
Sep 26, 12:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFranklin64 min
Sep 26, 1:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKFranklin, Johnson, Newton3 hr
Sep 26, 1:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBoone, Marion, Searcy3 hr
Sep 26, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan62 min
Sep 26, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell60 min
Sep 26, 2:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPolk, Scott3 hr
Sep 26, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope61 min
Sep 26, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Perry61 min
Sep 26, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren62 min
Sep 26, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Montgomery, Saline85 min
Sep 26, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring64 min
Sep 26, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner76 min
Sep 26, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne62 min
Sep 26, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKHot Spring, Saline61 min
Sep 26, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKSaline64 min
Sep 26, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski79 min
Sep 26, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite79 min
Sep 26, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKOuachita61 min
Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBoone, Newton, Searcy3 hr
Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKMarion3 hr
Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence75 min
Sep 26, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas70 min
Sep 26, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPulaski61 min
Sep 26, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley, Cleveland65 min
Sep 26, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPulaski45 min
Sep 26, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke64 min
Sep 26, 5:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPulaski3 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.