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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 19, 1997Drew County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 1997, 9:32 PM CDT for Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 93 min. 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 19, 1997, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1997, 11:05 PM CDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Drew County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 1997-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1403 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 1997-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1437 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 19, 7:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland91 min
May 19, 10:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKDesha2 hr
May 20, 12:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKDesha2 hr
May 20, 12:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKLincoln3 hr
May 20, 12:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKDrew115 min

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.