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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 6, 1996Boone County, Newton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Nov 6, 1996, 9:25 PM CST for Boone County, Newton 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
Nov 6, 1996, 9:25 PM CST (03:25 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 12:00 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Boone County, AR, Newton County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 1996-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 55 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 1996-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -153 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
55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-69 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
Nov 6, 10:01 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKFranklin3 hr
Nov 6, 10:29 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKSearcy3 hr
Nov 7, 2:46 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski59 min
Nov 7, 3:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite65 min
Nov 7, 4:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark63 min
Nov 7, 4:51 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas64 min
Nov 7, 5:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson65 min
Nov 7, 5:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland64 min
Nov 7, 6:06 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas64 min
Nov 7, 6:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLincoln50 min
Nov 7, 6:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDrew61 min
Nov 7, 7:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha65 min
Nov 7, 8:42 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKMarion, Searcy6 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.