Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Mar 30, 2002, 6:27 AM CST (12:27 UTC)

Expired

Mar 30, 2002, 9:30 AM CST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clark County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Pike County, AR

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:30 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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

000 
WGUS54 KLZK 301227
FFWLIT
ARC019-053-059-109-301530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
627 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HOT SPRING COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
  GRANT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
  CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 930 AM CST

* AT 620 AM...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY    
  RAIN EXTENDED FROM NEAR MURFREESBORO...TO JUST NORTH OF            
  ARKADELPHIA...TO JUST SOUTH OF SHERIDAN. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR     
  ESTIMATED THAT AREAS ALONG THE BAND HAVE RECEIVED 2 TO 3 INCHES 
  OF RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING. WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN...FLASH
  FLOODING IS LIKELY TO OCCUR.     

&&

DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD THE WATER DEPTH
MAY BE TO GREAT FOR SAFE PASSAGE. IT ONLY TAKES ABOUT TWO FEET OF
MOVING WATER TO CARRY A CAR DOWNSTREAM.

LAT...LON 3445 9221 3409 9222 3418 9242 3419 9304
          3398 9329 3399 9384 3431 9392 3437 9293

$$

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 30, 4:44 AM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
444 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

PROBLEM OF THE DAY CONTINUES TO BE FRONT...THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY
RAINFALL CHANCES.

CURRENT KLZK RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING ACROSS
MUCH OF ARKANSAS. RAIN WILL CONTINUE ALL DAY ACROSS THE AREA. BEST
CHANCES OF RAIN WILL BE CENTRAL AND SOUTH. WITH ABUNDANT GULF
MOISTURE AVAILABLE...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT...MAINLY CENTRAL AND SOUTH. HAVE DECIDED TO INCREASE THE
AREAL EXTENT OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH...EXTENDED IT FURTHER NORTH.

WITH COLD FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS SOME SEVERE STORMS ARE
POSSIBLE ALONG THE FRONT. COLD FRONT WILL PULL OUT OF THE AREA ON
SUNDAY. PRECIP SHOULD END ACROSS THE AREA BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. DRY
CONDITIONS ARE IN STORE FOR SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. THE
NEXT FRONT COMES THROUGH ON TUESDAY AND BRINGS THE NEXT QUICK CHANCE
OF THUNDERSTORMS. WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WILL BE DRY.

TEMPERATURES WILL BE STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING TODAY. STAYED CLOSE TO
THE FWC GUIDANCE.

.LZK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH
ZONES ARZ016-025-032>034-043>047-021-022-030-031-037>042-23-024-052
053-062-066-067-054-055-056-057-064-065-063-068-069.

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.