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Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 14, 1997Pope County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT for Pope County, Arkansas. It was in force for 105 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
Jul 14, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
105 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pope County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1997-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1915 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1997-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 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
1915 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 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
Jul 14, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Independence31 min
Jul 14, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson34 min
Jul 14, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Van Buren50 min
Jul 14, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway47 min
Jul 14, 4:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKVan Buren100 min
Jul 14, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope48 min
Jul 14, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy50 min
Jul 14, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion51 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.