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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 1996, 2:00 PM CDT for Polk County, Scott 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
- Sep 26, 1996, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 303 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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
Local storm report, Sep 26, 11:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 7:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone | 47 min |
| Sep 26, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 49 min |
| Sep 26, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Searcy | 45 min |
| Sep 26, 9:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Stone | 47 min |
| Sep 26, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard | 50 min |
| Sep 26, 10:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Newton | 4 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin | 64 min |
| Sep 26, 1:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Franklin, Johnson, Newton | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 1:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Searcy | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 62 min |
| Sep 26, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 60 min |
| Sep 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 61 min |
| Sep 26, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry | 61 min |
| Sep 26, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 62 min |
| Sep 26, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Saline | 85 min |
| Sep 26, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 64 min |
| Sep 26, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 76 min |
| Sep 26, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 62 min |
| Sep 26, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Hot Spring, Saline | 61 min |
| Sep 26, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Saline | 64 min |
| Sep 26, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 79 min |
| Sep 26, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 79 min |
| Sep 26, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 61 min |
| Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Newton, Searcy | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Marion | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 75 min |
| Sep 26, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 70 min |
| Sep 26, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 61 min |
| Sep 26, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland | 65 min |
| Sep 26, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 45 min |
| Sep 26, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 64 min |
| Sep 26, 5:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 3 hr |
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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.