Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 5, 1998Franklin County, Logan County, Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jan 5, 1998, 3:56 AM CST for Franklin County, Logan County, Yell 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

Counties Franklin County, AR, Logan County, AR, Yell County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 WarningLZKNewton4 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.