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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 11, 1996Lonoke County, Prairie County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1996, 1:24 AM CDT for Lonoke County, Prairie County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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
May 11, 1996, 1:24 AM CDT (06:24 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1996, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lonoke County, AR, Prairie County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 300 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 1996-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 1996-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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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
May 10, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson48 min
May 10, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope41 min
May 10, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren47 min
May 10, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan44 min
May 10, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell43 min
May 10, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk50 min
May 10, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk26 min
May 11, 1:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas43 min
May 11, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKDallas, Grant3 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.