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Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1997, 11:25 PM CDT for Desha County, Drew County, Lincoln 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
- May 27, 1997, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1997, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Lincoln County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2954 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 10:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
ARZ027-033>036-045>049-056>058-064-065-069-280600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1010 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3AM FOR EASTERN ARKANSAS... A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING FROM CENTRAL INTO EASTERN ARKANSAS TUESDAY EVENING. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WITH SOME OF THE STORMS BECOMING TORNADIC. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS VERY UNSTABLE AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WITH MORE STORMS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT IN EASTERN ARKANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE UNTIL 3AM. THE WATCH IS GENERALLY EAST OF SEARCY...LONOKE...AND PINE BLUFF. STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE IN THE WATCH AREA WILL PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER...A STRONG TO DAMAGING WIND...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN EASTERN ARKANSAS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...AND LOOK FOR THREATENING WEATHER. BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. 46
Special weather statement, May 27, 10:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
ARZ027-033>036-045>049-056>058-064-065-069-280600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1010 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3AM FOR EASTERN ARKANSAS... A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING FROM CENTRAL INTO EASTERN ARKANSAS TUESDAY EVENING. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WITH SOME OF THE STORMS BECOMING TORNADIC. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS VERY UNSTABLE AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WITH MORE STORMS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT IN EASTERN ARKANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE UNTIL 3AM. THE WATCH IS GENERALLY EAST OF SEARCY...LONOKE...AND PINE BLUFF. STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE IN THE WATCH AREA WILL PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER...A STRONG TO DAMAGING WIND...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN EASTERN ARKANSAS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...AND LOOK FOR THREATENING WEATHER. BE READY TO TAKE COVER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 46 min |
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 35 min |
| May 27, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 47 min |
| May 27, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 48 min |
| May 27, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 33 min |
| May 27, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 50 min |
| May 27, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | White | 33 min |
| May 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 45 min |
| May 27, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 51 min |
| May 27, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 49 min |
| May 27, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 47 min |
| May 27, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 50 min |
| May 27, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson | 48 min |
| May 27, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 16 min |
| May 27, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 63 min |
| May 27, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Prairie | 36 min |
| May 27, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 3 hr |
| May 27, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 48 min |
| May 28, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 46 min |
| May 28, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, White | 32 min |
| May 28, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 34 min |
| May 28, 1:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 2 hr |
| May 28, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 49 min |
| May 28, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 51 min |
| May 28, 3:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 31 min |
| May 28, 3:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 17 min |
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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.