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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 9, 1998Newton County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 1998, 11:13 AM CDT for Newton 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: Aug 9, 1998, 11:13 AM CDT (16:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 1998, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Newton County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 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.

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, Aug 9, 9:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
956 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0949 AM    HARRISON                  AR   LIGHTNING
08/09/98   BOONE                          LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOUSE
                                          AND SET IT ON FIRE. POWER
                                          POLES DOWN BY LIGHTNING
&                                          STRIKE. REPORTED BY HARRISON
                                          PD.

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 9:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
956 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0949 AM    HARRISON                  AR   LIGHTNING
08/09/98   BOONE                          LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOUSE
                                          AND SET IT ON FIRE. POWER
                                          POLES DOWN BY LIGHTNING
&                                          STRIKE. REPORTED BY HARRISON
                                          PD.

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0825 AM    BELLEFONTE                AR   .75 INCH HAIL
08/09/98   BOONE                          REPORTED BY HARRISON PD.

Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:33 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1033 AM CDT SUN AUG 09 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1016 AM    HARRISON                  AR   WIND DAMAGE
08/09/98   BOONE                          ESTIMATED WINDS FROM 40 TO
                                          50 MPH BLEW A TREE ONTO A
                                          HOUSE AND SOME STREET
                                          SIGNS WERE BLOWN DOWN ALL
                                          ON THE NORTH SIDE OF
                                          HARRISON. FROM HARRISON
                                          PD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland	50 min
Aug 8, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	35 min
Aug 8, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy	48 min
Aug 9, 8:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone	34 min
Aug 9, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	34 min
Aug 9, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	49 min
Aug 9, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott	49 min
Aug 9, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	45 min
Aug 9, 3:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk	2 hr
Aug 9, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	51 min
Aug 9, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	51 min
Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence	36 min
Aug 9, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	49 min
Aug 9, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	49 min
Aug 9, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	47 min
Aug 9, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	50 min
Aug 9, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Ouachita	50 min
Aug 9, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	48 min
Aug 9, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	49 min
Aug 9, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie	49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1998 Every 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.