Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 2001, 7:33 AM CST for 5 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 16, 2001, 7:33 AM CST (13:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, AR, Grant County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Prairie County, AR, White County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:33 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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.
NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Feb 16, 3:10 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 3:10 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 310 AM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 COLD AIR MAY SNEAK INTO NORTH AND WEST ZONES EARLY TODAY...SO FORECAST WILL INCLUDE POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN/SLEET BEFORE IT WARMS ENOUGH FOR RAIN LATER IN THE MORNING. SOUTHEAST SECTIONS WILL KEEP THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINS STILL AS THE LOW WILL MOVE CLOSER TO THAT AREA. FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH ZONES TODAY. THERE WILL BE ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO INCLUDE SOME THUNDER WITH THE LIKELY RAIN. TEMPEATURES WILL BE TRICKY...SINCE THEY WILL DROPPING DURING THE DAY. DRY FORECAST FROM SUNDAY ON...WITH MOISTURE RETURNING FOR THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. 32 .LIT...FLASH VFLOOD WATCH TODAY ZONES 32>34..39..41>47..52>57..62>69.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 5:16 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Pope, Yell | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Pike, Polk and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 8:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 9:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Garland, Perry | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Grant, Lonoke, Prairie, White | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.