Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Jul 19, 2002, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)

Expired

Jul 19, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT

In force

106 min

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cleveland County, AR

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 192229
FFWLIT
ARC025-200015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CLEVELAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 520 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY STATIONARY    
  AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM AROUND RISON EASTWARD TO NEAR WOODLAWN. 
  THE RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY FALLEN. 
  WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY TO       
  OCCUR. 

&&

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

LAT...LON 3403 9198 3388 9199 3389 9223 3403 9223

$$

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 19, 3:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
327 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002

MAIN CONCERN TONIGHT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE RAIN FOR NORTHEAST
PARTS OF THE CWFA.

GENERALLY LIKE THE AVN THE BEST OF THE MODELS. THE UPPER LOW OVER
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST TONIGHT AND SATURDAY.
BEFORE IT GETS TOO FAR AWAY...SEVERAL SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE THROUGH
THE NORTHEAST SECTION. THIS IS GOING TO BRING MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO
THE AREA WHERE IT HAS BEEN RAINING ALL DAY TODAY. LOOKING AT THE VAD
WIND PROFILE WINDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT ARE ONLY AROUND 15KTS.
THE GROUND IS SATURATED SO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR A
PORTION OF THE NORTHEAST

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CONCENTRATED IN THE NORTHEAST
AGAIN TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA
ON SATURDAY WITH HIGH PRESSURE ALONG THE GULF COAST. AS THE LOW
MOVES OFF TO THE EAST AND HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER
ARKANSAS...SUNDAY AND MONDAY WILL BE DRY. THE NEXT FRONT MOVES INTO
THE AREA FROM THE NORTH ON TUESDAY. THIS WILL BRING A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA FOR THE MIDDLE AND LATTER PART
OF NEXT WEEK.

TEMPERATURES WILL BE SIMILAR THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WITH LOWS IN THE
70S AND HIGHS IN THE 80S AND 90S.

.LZK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTHEAST TONIGHT...ZONES
ARZ005>007-014>016-024-025-033-034

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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.