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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 5, 1998Newton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jan 5, 1998, 3:56 AM CST for Newton 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
Jan 5, 1998, 3:56 AM CST (09:56 UTC)
Expired
Jan 5, 1998, 8:00 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Newton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 1998-01-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 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 050956
FFWLIT
ARC047-083-101-149-051400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
356 AM CST MON JAN 5 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN ARKANSAS

   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
   ...LOGAN COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS

   ...NEWTON COUNTY

IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

   ...YELL COUNTY
 
AT 350 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN
THROUGH SEVERAL COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. AT
345 AM...A STORM SPOTTER ON THE YELL-LOGAN COUNTY LINE REPORTED OVER 5
INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST 12 HOURS AND OVER 2 INCHES SINCE MIDNIGHT.
SHERIFF'S OFFICES IN FRANKLIN AND LOGAN COUNTIES REPORTED ROADS FLOODED
IN THEIR COUNTIES.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JOHNSON AND POPE COUNTIES
UNTIL 7 AM THIS MORNING.

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR OVER WEST
CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS THROUGH MID MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL
ARKANSAS THROUGH MID MORNING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHnICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

&

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 5, 2:59 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKJohnson, Pope4 hr
Jan 5, 3:56 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKFranklin, Logan, Yell4 hr

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.