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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Little Rock, AR

November 24, 1996Garland County, Montgomery County, Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Nov 24, 1996, 2:00 PM CST for Garland County, Montgomery County, Pike 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 24, 1996, 2:00 PM CST (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Nov 24, 1996, 5:00 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Garland County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1996-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 430 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1996-11-24The 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
430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 24, 8:39 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKPolk, Scott3 hr
Nov 24, 8:39 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKFranklin, Johnson, Logan3 hr
Nov 24, 12:50 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKLogan, Polk, Scott6 hr
Nov 24, 1:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Dallas, Hot Spring62 min
Nov 24, 2:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski47 min
Nov 24, 5:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKMontgomery, Pike, Yell6 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.