Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 1999, 10:51 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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
- May 22, 1999, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1999, 1:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bradley County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Drew County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1705 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
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, May 22, 8:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
844 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM DARDANELLE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 YELL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
0740 PM SARDIS AR 1 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 SALINE QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
0751 PM BOONEVILLE AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 LOGAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
0755 PM LONDON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 POPE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
28Local storm report, May 22, 8:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
844 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM DARDANELLE AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 YELL GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
0740 PM SARDIS AR 1 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 SALINE QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
0751 PM BOONEVILLE AR .88 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 LOGAN NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
0755 PM LONDON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 POPE GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.
28Local storm report, May 22, 9:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
938 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0902 PM HOLLIS AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/22/99 PERRY
0910 PM WALDRON AR WIND DAMAGE
05/22/99 SCOTT TREES DOWN.
28Special weather statement, May 22, 9:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, May 22, 9:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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
Local storm report, May 22, 10:23 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 33 min |
| May 22, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 50 min |
| May 22, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 36 min |
| May 22, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland | 34 min |
| May 22, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 35 min |
| May 22, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Yell | 50 min |
| May 22, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 50 min |
| May 22, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry | 49 min |
| May 22, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 49 min |
| May 22, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 47 min |
| May 22, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 49 min |
| May 22, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 34 min |
| May 22, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk | 47 min |
| May 22, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 35 min |
| May 22, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 50 min |
| May 22, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 46 min |
| May 22, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 34 min |
| May 22, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike, Polk | 49 min |
| May 22, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 45 min |
| May 22, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 51 min |
| May 22, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 47 min |
| May 22, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie | 47 min |
| May 22, 10:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 2 hr |
| May 22, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 32 min |
| May 22, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas, Ouachita | 53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.