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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 16, 2003Montgomery County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 2003, 3:13 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 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
May 16, 2003, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 299 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-621 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1397 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
439 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KLZK 162016
FFWLIT
ARC097-162315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
313 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN WESTERN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 315 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN LITTLE ROCK INDICATED RAINFALL RATES 
OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR IN NORTHERN MONTGOMERY 
COUNTY. SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED THAT FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
IN SIMS...HOG JAW...AND ODEN IN THE LAST HOUR. WATER WAS COVERING 
THE ROADWAY ON SIMS LOOP.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS AND LOW-LYING BRIDGE CROSSINGS...
AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

DO NOT 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 VEHICLE DOWNSTREAM.

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 3465 9389 3441 9389 3438 9348 3468 9353

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan42 min
May 16, 6:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton41 min
May 16, 10:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence29 min
May 16, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite45 min
May 16, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite48 min
May 16, 2:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKWhite33 min
May 16, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKYell31 min
May 16, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKMontgomery28 min
May 16, 2:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJackson, Woodruff49 min
May 16, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKYell27 min
May 16, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway45 min
May 16, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPerry44 min
May 16, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJackson43 min
May 16, 3:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKYell3 hr
May 16, 3:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKConway3 hr
May 16, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner43 min
May 16, 3:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPope2 hr
May 16, 3:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKFaulkner2 hr
May 16, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski58 min
May 16, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKFaulkner45 min
May 16, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPerry, Saline58 min
May 16, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite61 min
May 16, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKScott44 min
May 16, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKCleburne57 min
May 16, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKWhite58 min
May 16, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKFaulkner39 min
May 16, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan42 min
May 16, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGarland, Perry, Saline45 min
May 16, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKLogan33 min
May 16, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKWhite57 min
May 16, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski14 min
May 16, 5:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKVan Buren118 min
May 16, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKYell36 min
May 16, 5:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKWhite3 hr
May 16, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson, Woodruff57 min
May 16, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Logan, Pope48 min
May 16, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson, Woodruff52 min
May 16, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence41 min
May 16, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Perry59 min
May 16, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKYell47 min
May 16, 6:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPope3 hr
May 16, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite35 min
May 16, 6:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKMontgomery3 hr
May 16, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery60 min
May 16, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope25 min
May 16, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson, Woodruff47 min
May 16, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKConway, Van Buren55 min
May 16, 6:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKConway, Yell3 hr
May 16, 6:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKJackson, Woodruff3 hr
May 16, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKWhite59 min
May 16, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPulaski47 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.