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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 30, 2001Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2001, 5:32 AM CDT for Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 118 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 30, 2001, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2001, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Yell County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2001-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 821 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2001-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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 30, 3:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
330 AM CDT SAT JUN 30 2001

PESKY UPPER LOW WILL NOT MOVE MUCH TODAY OVER NORTHERN AR...BUT WILL
BEGIN TO SINK SOUTH TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. MODELS AGREE PRETTY WELL ON
THIS H50 SCENARIO. THIS WILL TAKE MUCH OF THE DEEPER MOISTURE SOUTH
WITH IT...SO RAIN CHANCES WILL BE DECREASING AS TIME GOES ON FROM
NORTH TO SOUTH. WILL GO WITH SCATTERED TO LIKELY POPS TODAY OVER
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ZONES. PW VALUES WAY UP THERE...SO COULD BE
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN THE STRONGER CELLS. DO NOT THINK THE NORTH
WILL SEE MUCH ACTIVITY...BUT WILL NOT REMOVE POPS COMPLETELY...WILL
LIKELY GO WITH 20-30%.

MAIN THREAT OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WILL BE OVER SOUTHERN
ZONES AS UPPER LOW SINKS IN THAT DIRECTION. WILL REMOVE POPS
COMPLETELY OVER THE NORTH. WITH SKIES BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY...LIGHT
WINDS AND RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE LEFT OVER...WILL INTRODUCE
AREAS OF FOG LATE MANY AREAS.

SUNDAY LOOKS LESS ACTIVE WITH SCATTERED RAIN CHANCES LIMITED TO
SOUTHERN ZONES. WILL HALF STEP CENTRAL AND NORTH BACK TO ABOUT 20
PERCENT. STATUS QUO FORECAST FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK...THOUGH UPPER
HIGH DOES ATTEMPT xTO REESTABLISH ITSELF BY MID WEEK. WILL ALLOW FOR
SCATTERED AFTERNOON CONVECTION...MAINLY SOUTHEAST HALF MONDAY AND
TUESDAY.

(45)

.LIT...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 4:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell23 min
Jun 30, 5:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPerry, Yell41 min

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.