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Flash Flood Warning 88, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 14, 1997Marion County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1997, 7:49 PM CDT for Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 14, 1997, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1997, 9:50 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3730 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
3730 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1063 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy51 min
Jul 14, 8:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKSearcy2 hr
Jul 14, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton58 min
Jul 14, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton32 min
Jul 14, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp65 min
Jul 14, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter47 min
Jul 14, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIzard48 min
Jul 14, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren51 min
Jul 14, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope47 min
Jul 15, 2:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff48 min
Jul 15, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe63 min
Jul 15, 3:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie49 min
Jul 15, 6:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas47 min
Jul 15, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell33 min
Jul 15, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott48 min
Jul 15, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell37 min
Jul 15, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott47 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.