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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 10, 1998Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Feb 10, 1998, 10:28 AM CST for Pulaski 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: Feb 10, 1998, 10:28 AM CST (16:28 UTC)
Expired: Feb 10, 1998, 12:30 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties

County Pulaski County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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

Special weather statement, Feb 10, 8:58 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 10, 8:58 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 9, 10:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lincoln	34 min
Feb 10, 7:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland	32 min
Feb 10, 7:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Saline	50 min
Feb 10, 7:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	49 min
Feb 10, 8:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	44 min
Feb 10, 8:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	18 min
Feb 10, 8:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	White	35 min
Feb 10, 8:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	48 min
Feb 10, 9:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	49 min
Feb 10, 9:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	51 min
Feb 10, 10:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	46 min
Feb 10, 10:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	63 min
Feb 10, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	46 min
Feb 10, 5:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Drew	35 min
Feb 10, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	33 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.