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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1999, 7:24 PM CDT for Jefferson 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
- Jun 29, 1999, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1999, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 2178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1017 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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, Jun 29, 1:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
ARZ021-030-037-038-040-041-050>052-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 131 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 1999 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS EFFECTING FROM 130 PM UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...AND WERE MOVING EASTWARD. A NEARLY STATIONARY COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS NEAR MENA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA...BUT THE MAIN AREA WILL ARRIVE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS AFTER 3 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD AT NEARLY 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. 34
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
ARZ021-030-037-038-040-041-050>052-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 131 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 1999 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN ARKANSAS EFFECTING FROM 130 PM UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...AND WERE MOVING EASTWARD. A NEARLY STATIONARY COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS NEAR MENA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA...BUT THE MAIN AREA WILL ARRIVE IN WESTERN ARKANSAS AFTER 3 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD AT NEARLY 30 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. 34
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Drew, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 34 min |
| Jun 30, 5:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 6:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Marion | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 6:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Searcy | 119 min |
| Jun 30, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Newton | 115 min |
| Jun 30, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 8:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Stone | 114 min |
| Jun 30, 10:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson | 116 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.