Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 13, 2001Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Feb 13, 2001, 4:47 PM CST for Pulaski County, 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 2001, 4:47 PM CST (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2001, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pulaski County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 408 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KLZK 132247
FFWLIT
ARC119-140145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
447 PM CST TUE FEB 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CST

* AT 445 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A   
  LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING OVER 
  PULASKI COUNTY. THE RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED 
  GROUND. RECORD RAINFALL BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES HAS ALREADY FALLEN 
  ACROSS THE COUNTY...WITH MORE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. THERE HAVE 
  ALSO BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF FLOODING ROADS AND WATER IN SOME 
  HOUSES AROUND THE COUNTY.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING 
OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. 
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTY ROADS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO 
FLASH FLOODING.

DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD THE WATER DEPTH
MAY BE TO GREAT FOR SAFE PASSAGE. IT ONLY TAKES ABOUT TWO FEET OF
MOVING WATER TO CARRY A CAR DOWNSTREAM.

REPORT ANY FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL 
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN 
LITTLE ROCK.

LAT...LON 3495 9212 3451 9213 3467 9243 3490 9270

$$

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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.

NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Feb 13, 2:38 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 2:38 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
238 PM CST TUE FEB 13 2001

PREFER AVN MODEL ALTHOUGH CONFIDENCE IS LOW. WILL THEREFORE FIGURE
ON WARM FRONT TO CONTINUE MOVING NORTHWARD ACROSS LOUISIANA TONIGHT
AND INTO ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY. MEANWHILE A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH BENTON
COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT THE
COLD FRONT WILL HAVE MOVED INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER. IT WILL THEN MOVE
OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS AROUND MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY AND EXTEND FROM NEAR
JONESBORO TO TEXARKANA AROUND 06Z THURSDAY. BY THURSDAY MORNING AROUND
SUNRISE THE COLD FRONT SHOULD LIE NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE
SOUTHEASTERN QUARTER OF ARKANS|AS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE TRICKY TO PINPOINT
AND HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON ACTUAL TIMING OF FRONT. RAIN MAY BE HEAVY AT
TIMES. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AHEAD OF THE FRONT.

.LIT...NONE.

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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.