Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

May 29, 2002, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)

Expired

May 29, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jackson County, AR

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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 292116
FFWLIT
ARC067-292315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
412 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 410 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT SHOWERS AND
  THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING OVER JACKSON COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED AS MUCH AS 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN A SHORT PERIOD
  OF TIME. WITH THE RAIN LIKELY TO CONTINUE...FLASH FLOODING IS A
  POSSIBILITY. 
 
&&

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

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 3575 9107 3547 9110 3549 9132 3578 9129

$$

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 29, 3:50 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
350 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2002

STUBBORN STORM SYSTEM ALOFT IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA MAKING VERY SLOW
PROGRESS TO THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM...SCATTERED
TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING AND MOVING SLOWLY. GIVEN
SLOW STORM MOVEMENT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE ANYWHERE THIS
EVENING.

FOR EXAMPLE...HAD MORE THAN 4 INCHES OF RAIN THIS MORNING IN SMALL
AREA OF WESTERN CALHOUN COUNTY. HIGHWAY 274 BARRICADED FOR A TIME
DUE TO HIGH WATER.

SYSTEM ALOFT WILL BRING CONTINUED CHANCES FOR SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT/THURSDAY BEFORE FINALLY MOVING SOUTH AND EAST OF REGION.

RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER ARKANSAS FROM THE PLAINS OVER
THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...AND WILL PROMISE DRY/WARMER
WEATHER.

WEAK COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY APPROACH FROM THE NORTH BY WEDNESDAY OF
NEXT WEEK WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS MENTIONED IN
THE FORECAST.

FCSTID = 46
HRO   63  78  63  85 /  30  30  20  10
LIT   66  81  66  86 /  40  40  20  10
HOT   66  81  66  87 /  40  30  20  10
PBF   67  82  67  86 /  50  50  30  10

.LZK...NONE.

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.