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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 16, 1997Garland County, Grant County, Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1997, 11:52 PM CDT for Garland County, Grant County, Hot Spring 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

Counties Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 72 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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 1997-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2912 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2912 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
5.4

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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

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan63 min
Jun 16, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott32 min
Jun 16, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell64 min
Jun 16, 8:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKScott3 hr
Jun 16, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring63 min
Jun 16, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk63 min
Jun 16, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant62 min
Jun 16, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson, Pulaski46 min
Jun 16, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant49 min
Jun 16, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke48 min
Jun 16, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy35 min
Jun 16, 11:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKLonoke3 hr
Jun 16, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe, Prairie65 min
Jun 17, 3:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun34 min
Jun 17, 4:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBradley33 min
Jun 17, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope33 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.