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Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 14, 1997Searcy County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1997, 8:13 PM CDT for Searcy 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, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Searcy County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KLIT 150113
FFWLIT
ARC129-150315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
813 PM CDT MON JUL 14 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS

   ...SEARCY COUNTY
 
AT 810 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL ACROSS PARTS OF
SEARCY COUNTY RANGE UPWARDS TO OVER THREE INCHES DURING THE PAST TWO
HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS
OF THE COUNTY.
 
IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD
WATERS.  DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS
RISING.

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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
Jul 14, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	51 min
Jul 14, 7:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Marion	2 hr
Jul 14, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	58 min
Jul 14, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	32 min
Jul 14, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Sharp	65 min
Jul 14, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	47 min
Jul 14, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard	48 min
Jul 14, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Van Buren	51 min
Jul 14, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	47 min
Jul 15, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	48 min
Jul 15, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe	63 min
Jul 15, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie	49 min
Jul 15, 6:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas	47 min
Jul 15, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	33 min
Jul 15, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	48 min
Jul 15, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Yell	37 min
Jul 15, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	47 min

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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.