Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Dec 13, 2001, 11:23 AM CST for Bradley County, Desha County, Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 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
- Dec 13, 2001, 11:23 AM CST (17:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 13, 2001, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bradley County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -208 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 Dec 13, 10:55 AM CST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 10:55 AM CST, 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1055 AM CST THU DEC 13 2001
COLD FRONT THAT MOVED THROUGH ARKANSAS ON WEDNESDAY HAS BECOME
NEARLY STATIONARY JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THE STATE. MEANWHILE...STRONG
SYSTEM ALOFT HEADING THROUGH TEXAS THIS MORNING. IN RESPONSE TO
SYSTEM...SURFACE LOW WILL FORM ALONG FRONT IN EAST TEXAS...AND WILL
TRACK INTO LOUISIANA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. NORTH OF THE FRONT...
WIDESPREAD RAIN EXPECTED TO DEVELOP...WITH THUNDERSHOWERS EMBEDDED
IN THE RAIN.
LATEST DATA SUGGESTING THAT AN INCH OF RAIN AND LOCALLY MORE COULD
FALL IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. WITH THE
GROUND ALREADY SATURATED...ISSUED FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR
BRADLEY...DREW AND DESHA COUNTIES.
FARTHER NORTH...RAIN WILL BECOME LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH RAIN
CONTINUING IN MOST AREAS OVERNIGHT. UPPED RAIN CHANCES AND
AMOUNTS...AND ADDED A CHANCE OF THUNDERSHOWERS IN THE SOUTHEAST HALF
OF THE STATE.
LOOKS LIKE LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST
OVERNIGHT...WITH MOST PRECIPITATION ENDING BY FRIDAY MORNING.
HOWEVER...WRAPAROUND MOISTURE WILL LINGER IN THE NORTHERN
COUNTIES...WITH SOME LEFTOVER LIGHT PRECIPITATION.
FOR NOW...HAVE MENTIONED A CHANCE OF RAIN FRIDAY MORNING IN THE
NORTH. COLDER AIR WRAPPING AROUND SURFACE LOW TRYING TO CHANGE RAIN
INTO SOME WET SNOW FLAKES. HOWEVER...LOOKS A BIT TOO WARM IN THE
BOUNDARY LAYER TO MENTION SNOW AT THIS TIME.
HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING DRY WEATHER ON FRIDAY. HOWEVER...HIGH WILL
MOVE TO EAST SATURDAY...WITH RETURN FLOW BRINGING MORE MOISTURE FROM
GULF AND YET ANOTHER SHOT OF RAIN FOR THE WEEKEND. (46)
.LIT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS TODAY...
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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.