Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2001, 2:27 PM CDT for Newton 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
- Aug 29, 2001, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2001, 4:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Newton County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 Aug 29, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 112 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO INCLUDE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ACROSS THE NORTH. KLZK RADAR SHOWS THUNDERSHOWERS DEVELOPING IN THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS. ALSO WENT WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY WORDING IN ALL AREAS. DECENT CUMULUS FIELD HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. HIGHER CLOUDS CONTINUE TO STREAM NORTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA. REST OF FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. .LIT...NONE. 51
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 32 min |
| Aug 29, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 34 min |
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.