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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2002, 7:08 AM CST for Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2002, 7:08 AM CST (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Arkansas County, AR, Jefferson County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:11 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KLZK 301308
FFWLIT
ARC001-069-301530-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
708 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ARKANSAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
* UNTIL 930 AM CST
* AT 705 AM...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF SHERIDAN TO DEWITT...
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT SOME 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 3451 9128 3433 9111 3416 9112 3400 9125
3401 9139 3412 9143 3417 9220 3447 9217
$$
46The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 24 min |
| Mar 29, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 26 min |
| Mar 29, 10:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 10:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 3:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 22 min |
| Mar 30, 4:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 4:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 5:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 5:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 6:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Grant, Hot Spring, Pike | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 10:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 10:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Drew | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Desha | 31 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.