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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 29, 1998White County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1998, 4:30 PM CDT for White 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 29, 1998, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County White County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 260 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 1998-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 66 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 1998-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 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
66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 29, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKStone36 min
Jul 29, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite49 min
Jul 29, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite50 min
Jul 29, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne49 min
Jul 29, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter35 min
Jul 29, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite51 min
Jul 29, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKVan Buren36 min
Jul 29, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWoodruff50 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.