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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 28, 1997Independence County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1997, 2:07 PM CDT for Independence County, Arkansas. It was in force for 113 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
Jun 28, 1997, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1997, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Independence County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2353 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
2353 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jun 27, 8:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKDesha2 hr
Jun 28, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner65 min
Jun 28, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton35 min
Jun 28, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence35 min
Jun 28, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski, Saline36 min
Jun 28, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPike64 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.