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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Feb 10, 1998, 6:22 PM CST for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 3 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, 6:22 PM CST (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1998, 9:25 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Perry County, AR, Saline County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 2:38 PM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
ARZ052>057-060>073-102145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 238 PM CST TUE FEB 10 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHERN THIRD OF ARKANSAS UNTIL 9 PM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE WATCH GENERALLY COVERS AREAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GLENWOOD TO MALVERN TO STUTTGART. VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR HAS WORKED ITS WAY NORTH INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. AT THE SAME TIME...A VIGOROUS AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WAS FORMING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS. THIS LOW WILL SCOOT NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THIS EVENING...BRINGING A COLD FRONT WITH IT. THIS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. A FEW TORNADOS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THOSE COVERED BY THE TORNADO WATCH SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO, LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO, OR CABLE OUTLETS FOR MORE INFORMATION REGARDING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. 45
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 2:38 PM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
ARZ052>057-060>073-102145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 238 PM CST TUE FEB 10 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHERN THIRD OF ARKANSAS UNTIL 9 PM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE WATCH GENERALLY COVERS AREAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GLENWOOD TO MALVERN TO STUTTGART. VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR HAS WORKED ITS WAY NORTH INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. AT THE SAME TIME...A VIGOROUS AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WAS FORMING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS. THIS LOW WILL SCOOT NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THIS EVENING...BRINGING A COLD FRONT WITH IT. THIS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. A FEW TORNADOS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THOSE COVERED BY THE TORNADO WATCH SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO, LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO, OR CABLE OUTLETS FOR MORE INFORMATION REGARDING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. 45
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 4:40 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
ARZ064-065-068-069-110000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 440 PM CST TUE FEB 10 1998 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS... AS OF 435 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS FROM LOUISIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST TOWARD SOUTHERN BRADLEY...DREW...LINCOLN AND DESHA COUNTIES. THE STORMS HAVE BROUGHT WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE TO NORTHERN LOUISIANA... AS WELL AS VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WITH SOME HAIL POSSIBLE. THEY SHOULD AFFECT AREAS OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS THROUGH 6PM. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE REGION THROUGH 9PM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 6:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Feb 10, 11:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 1:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland | 2 hr |
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.