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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 28, 1998Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1998, 2:04 AM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 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
May 28, 1998, 2:04 AM CDT (07:04 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1998, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1998-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1598 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1998-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
12.7

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk50 min
May 28, 2:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKMontgomery, Scott4 hr
May 28, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDesha47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.