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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Little Rock, AR

February 16, 20015 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 2001, 10:20 AM CST for 5 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
Feb 16, 2001, 10:20 AM CST (16:20 UTC)
Expired
Feb 16, 2001, 12:30 PM CST
In force
2 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 16:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2001-02-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2001-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -96 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Feb 16, 10:15 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 10:15 AM CST, 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 16, 5:16 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKConway, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Pope, Yell2 hr
Feb 16, 6:04 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKFaulkner, Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline3 hr
Feb 16, 7:29 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKConway, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Pike, Polk and 3 more2 hr
Feb 16, 7:33 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark, Grant, Lonoke, Prairie, White3 hr
Feb 16, 8:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKArkansas, Cleveland, Dallas, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe and 1 more3 hr
Feb 16, 9:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKConway, Garland, Perry3 hr
Feb 16, 11:28 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKArkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.