Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 29, 2001Newton County, Arkansas

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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2001-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1440 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 12:00Z on 2001-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
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

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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 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.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 1:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton32 min
Aug 29, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter37 min
Aug 29, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy36 min
Aug 29, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLonoke34 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.