Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1998, 2:01 AM CDT for Montgomery 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 2:01 AM CDT (07:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 5:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 3210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLIT 130658 FFWLIT ARC097-131005- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 201 AM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 505 AM CDT *THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL THE PAST FEW HOURS INDICATE THAT ALMOST THREE2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE AREA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF YOU ENCOUNTER WATER ACROSS A ROAD...TURN AROUND AND GO THE OTHER WAY. 34
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
Local storm report, Jun 13, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1220 AM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1155 PM WALDRON AR WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 SCOTT TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
28Local storm report, Jun 13, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1220 AM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1155 PM WALDRON AR WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 SCOTT TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
28The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Scott | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 4:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.