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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 22, 19994 counties in Arkansas

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

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1999-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1705 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1999-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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, 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.

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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.

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Local 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.

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Special weather statement, May 22, 9:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ARZ040>045-050>057-059>073-230445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
944 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR
31 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THIS NEW WATCH REPLACES
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS
EARLIER IN THE EVENING.

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN ARKANSAS CONTINUES TO PUSH TOWARD THE
SOUTH. IN ADDITION...OTHER STORMS HAVE BROKEN OUT IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS
WELL AHEAD OF THE LINE.

A NUMBER OF THE STORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE DURING THE EVENING...WITH HAIL
UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO BLOW TREES DOWN. THE
THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL CONTINUE IN THE AREA
COVERED BY THE WATCH.

FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN ALSO BE
EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS.

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Special weather statement, May 22, 9:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ARZ040>045-050>057-059>073-230445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
944 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 1999

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR
31 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THIS NEW WATCH REPLACES
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS
EARLIER IN THE EVENING.

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN ARKANSAS CONTINUES TO PUSH TOWARD THE
SOUTH. IN ADDITION...OTHER STORMS HAVE BROKEN OUT IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS
WELL AHEAD OF THE LINE.

A NUMBER OF THE STORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE DURING THE EVENING...WITH HAIL
UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO BLOW TREES DOWN. THE
THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL CONTINUE IN THE AREA
COVERED BY THE WATCH.

FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN ALSO BE
EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS.

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Local storm report, May 22, 10:23 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott33 min
May 22, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan50 min
May 22, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell36 min
May 22, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleveland34 min
May 22, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSaline35 min
May 22, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Yell50 min
May 22, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott50 min
May 22, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Perry49 min
May 22, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell49 min
May 22, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott47 min
May 22, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner49 min
May 22, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas34 min
May 22, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Polk47 min
May 22, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGarland35 min
May 22, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite50 min
May 22, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKDallas46 min
May 22, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke34 min
May 22, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Pike, Polk49 min
May 22, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKHot Spring45 min
May 22, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark51 min
May 22, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke, Pulaski47 min
May 22, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPrairie47 min
May 22, 10:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKHot Spring2 hr
May 22, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPike32 min
May 22, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Dallas, Ouachita53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.