Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Jul 19, 2002, 11:46 AM CDT (16:46 UTC)

Expired

Jul 19, 2002, 2:45 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 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 191646
FFWLIT
ARC063-067-191945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1145 AM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  INDEPENDENCE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  JACKSON COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 1140 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND 
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS INDEPENDENCE AND JACKSON COUNTIES. 
LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. THE RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO 3 INCHES OF 
RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE LAST HOUR. WITH THE GROUND SATURATED AND 
PREVIOUS RAINFALL AMOUNTS...FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO BE 
LIKELY IN THESE AREAS.

&&

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.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. DONT CAMP NEAR
STREAMS OR OTHER LOW AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

LAT...LON 3578 9104 3539 9104 3550 9155 3562 9177
          3594 9176 3586 9106

$$

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 19, 11:08 AM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1108 AM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

UPDATED ZONES TO INCREASE THE POPS IN THE NORTHEAST ZONES. UPPER
LEVEL LOW CONTINUES OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND IS BRINGING A SWATH
OF MOISTURE ACROSS NORTHEAST ARKANSAS. NEWPORT IN JACKSON COUNTY
REPORTED 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2.5 HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS SEEM TO BE
BACKBUILDING INTO INDEPENDENCE COUNTY AGAIN...SO WILL HAVE TO KEEP
AN EYE ON THIS OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.

ALSO...HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE DECREASED IN THE NORTHEAST WITH CLOUD
COVER AND RAIN. HIGHS WERE RAISED CENTRAL AND SOUTH WITH THE
SUNSHINE EXPERIENCED AND RAPID WARMING OF THE MORNING.

.LZK...NONE.

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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.