Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 75, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1997, 8:51 PM CDT for Scott 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
- Jun 16, 1997, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 11:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 621 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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, Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
ARZ020-030-037-040-041-050>052-059-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 350 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR A SMALL PART OF WESTERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A SMALL PART OF WESTERN ARKANSAS EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. THE TORNADO WATCH GENERALLY COVERS THAT PART OF ARKANSAS WEST OF AN OZARK...MURFREESBORO... ASHDOWN LINE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND SPREAD INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. KAS/46
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
ARZ020-030-037-040-041-050>052-059-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 350 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR A SMALL PART OF WESTERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A SMALL PART OF WESTERN ARKANSAS EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. THE TORNADO WATCH GENERALLY COVERS THAT PART OF ARKANSAS WEST OF AN OZARK...MURFREESBORO... ASHDOWN LINE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND SPREAD INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.N KAS/46
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
ARZ046-047-049-057-058-064-065-069-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 505 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS HAVE MOVED INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI...WITH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS DIMINISHING FOR THE TIME BEING. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS UNTIL 8PM HAS BEEN CANCELLED EARLY EXCEPT FOR TWO COUNTIES. ASHLEY AND CHICOT COUNTIES ARE STILL AFFECTED BY THE WATCH. WHILE THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED...MORE SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. STAY TUNED TO FURTHER UPDATES AND LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Pulaski | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Hot Spring | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 33 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.