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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 16, 1997Lonoke County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1997, 11:52 PM CDT for Lonoke 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, 11:52 PM CDT (04:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1997, 2:50 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Lonoke County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2715 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 170453
FFWLIT
ARC051-053-059-085-170750-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1152 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 250 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

   ...SOUTHERN GARLAND COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN GRANT COUNTY
   ...SOUTHWESTERN LONOKE COUNTY

IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS

   ...HOT SPRING COUNTY
 
A SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM DUMPED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN
AREAS FROM VALLEY SPRINGS TO HOT SPRINGS AND MALVERN...AND NEAR 2 INCHES
OF RAIN AT SCOTT EARLIER TONIGHT. SOME FLOODING ROADS HAS BEEN
REPORTED.
 

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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

Local storm report, Jun 16, 9:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
915 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0708 PM    WALDRON                   AR   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   SCOTT                          REPORT FROM PUBLIC

0743 PM    PARKS                     AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   SCOTT

0748 PM    WALDRON                   AR   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   SCOTT                          REPORT THROUGH FORT SMITH
                                          WEATHER OFFICE.

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 9:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
915 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0708 PM    WALDRON                   AR   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   SCOTT                          REPORT FROM PUBLIC

0743 PM    PARKS                     AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   SCOTT

0748 PM    WALDRON                   AR   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/16/97   SCOTT                          REPORT THROUGH FORT SMITH
                                          WEATHER OFFICE.

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1000 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0935 PM    MALVERN                   AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
           HOT SPRING                     CITY POLICE

0943 PM    MALVERN                   AR   1.50 INCH HAIL
           HOT SPRING                     REPORT FROM HAMS

0948 PM    GLEN ROSE                 AR   TREES AND POWER LINES
06/16/97   HOT SPRING                     DOWN BY WIND
                                          ALSO MINOR STREET FLOODING
                                          DOWNTOWN MALVERN
                                          REPORT FROM HAMS

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1000 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0935 PM    MALVERN                   AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
           HOT SPRING                     CITY POLICE

0943 PM    MALVERN                   AR   1.50 INCH HAIL
           HOT SPRING                     REPORT FROM HAMS

0948 PM    GLEN ROSE                 AR   TREES AND POWER LINES
06/16/97   HOT SPRING                     DOWN BY WIND
                                          ALSO MINOR STREET FLOODING
                                          DOWNTOWN MALVERN
                      F                    REPORT FROM HAMS

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1015 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1010z PM    ICO                       AR   TREES DOWN
           GRANT                          NORTHWEST OF SHERIDAN
                                          REPORT FROM OES

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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, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Scott	3 hr
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	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, 1997 Every 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.