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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 29, 2001Bradley County, Calhoun County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2001, 11:18 AM CDT for Bradley County, Calhoun County, Arkansas. It was in force for 117 min. 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, 2001, 11:18 AM CDT (16:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2001, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 249 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2001-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 72 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2001-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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 Jun 29, 10:50 AM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 10:50 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1050 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE WEST AND SOUTH
AT MID MORNING. SATELLITE PICTURES ARE INDICATING SEVERAL BOUNDARIES
SETTING UP OVER ALL BUT THE EXTREME NORTHEAST AND EAST PORTIONS OF
FORECAST AREA. THESE WILL BE THE FOCUS POINTS FOR THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AS DIURNAL HEATING TAKES PLACE.
LEFT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALL SECTIONS FOR THIS AFTERNOON...WITH
BEST CHANCES IN THE WEST AND SOUTH. SAME FOR TONIGHT. REST OF
PREVIOUS FORECAST OKAY. (22)

.LIT...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 5:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton, Marion3 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.