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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 22, 1998Sharp County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1998, 5:06 PM CDT for Sharp 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 22, 1998, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1998, 7:35 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Sharp County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 12:00Z on 1998-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 730 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1998-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 140 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
730 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jul 22, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMarion32 min
Jul 22, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter32 min
Jul 22, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring36 min
Jul 22, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, White34 min
Jul 22, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJefferson44 min
Jul 22, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne37 min
Jul 22, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp34 min
Jul 22, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPolk37 min
Jul 22, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring33 min
Jul 22, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski32 min
Jul 22, 5:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPulaski2 hr
Jul 22, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke, White32 min
Jul 22, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant31 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.