Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 12:47 AM CST for Bradley County, Drew 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
- Mar 2, 1997, 12:47 AM CST (06:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 3:35 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bradley County, AR, Drew County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:48 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 020648 FFWLIT ARC011-041-043-020935- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1247 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 335 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS ...BRADLEY COUNTY ...DESHA COUNTY ...DREW COUNTY AT 130 AM...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED FROM IN THE WARNING AREA FROM AROUND MONTICELLO TO SOUTH OF DUMAS. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO APPROACHING THE AREA AROUND HERMITAGE. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR. STREET AND HIGHWAY FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN MONTICELLO. THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING. RAINS WILL TAPER OFF BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AM... BUT THE WATER WILL TAKE A WHILE TO RUN OFF. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS SAFELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGER OF FLASH FLOODING ARE HARDER TO RECOGNIZE. & 31
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
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 9:16 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
ARZ036-047>049-056>058-063>069-071>073-020415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 916 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR PARTS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 300 AM CST... AT 900 PM CST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...AHEAD OF A SLOW-MOVING COLD FRONT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS IN EFFECT IN ARKANSAS COUNTY UNTIL 940 PM. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINED VERY UNSTABLE WITH WARM HUMID AIR AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. SOME OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS UNTIL THE COLD FRONT MOVES FULLY EAST OF ARKANSAS LATE TONIGHT. 31
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 9:18 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
ARZ036-047>049-056>058-063>069-071>073-020415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 916 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR PARTS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNTIL 300 AM CST... AT 900 PM CST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...AHEAD OF A SLOW-MOVING COLD FRONT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS IN EFFECT IN ARKANSAS COUNTY UNTIL 940 PM. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINED VERY UNSTABLE WITH WARM HUMID AIR AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. SOME OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS UNTIL THE COLD FRONT MOVES FULLY EAST OF ARKANSAS LATE TONIGHT. 31
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 6:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 7:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, White, Woodruff | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 9:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 10:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Desha | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Desha, Drew | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Bradley | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 65 min |
| Mar 2, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.