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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 27, 1997Faulkner County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Apr 27, 1997, 2:55 AM CDT for Faulkner 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
Apr 27, 1997, 2:55 AM CDT (07:55 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 1997, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Faulkner County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 324 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 00:00Z on 1997-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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
Apr 27, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland50 min
Apr 27, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPerry, Saline47 min
Apr 27, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland, Hot Spring48 min
Apr 27, 2:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland2 hr
Apr 27, 2:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKHot Spring, Perry, Pulaski, Saline3 hr
Apr 27, 2:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKFaulkner, Pulaski3 hr
Apr 27, 2:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKHot Spring, Saline3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.