Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Little Rock, AR

Issued

Aug 6, 2003, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)

Expired

Aug 6, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Little Rock, AR

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bradley County, AR

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 062346
FFWLIT
ARC011-070145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
644 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 640 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED             
  THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SAME AREAS OF NORTHERN BRADLEY   
  COUNTY. THE RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY 
  FALLEN FROM NEAR WEEKS TO WARREN AND CARMEL...OR IN AREAS ON OR    
  NEAR HIGHWAY 8. WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...FLASH FLOODING IS 
  LIKELY TO OCCUR. 

&&

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF YOU ENCOUNTER WATER ACROSS THE ROAD...TURN
AROUND AND GO THE OTHER WAY.

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.

LAT...LON 3370 9205 3355 9198 3349 9207 3371 9223

$$

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NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 6, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
245 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003

SURFACE LOW HAS CONSOLIDATED OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS...AND BOUNDARY
THAT WAS TO OUR NORTH HAS JUMPED INTO PLACE. NORTH WINDS HAVE
STARTED TO DROP DEW POINTS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ALREADY. NORTHWEST
FLOW SOUTH KEEP PUSHING THIS SYSTEM TO THE SOUTHEAST OUT OF OUR
STATE OVERNIGHT. CHANCE POPS OVERNIGHT...THE DRYING OUT THE FORECAST
UNTIL THE EXTENDED PORTION. HI WENT QUITE HIGH TODAY...BUT COOLER
AND DRIER AIR SHOULD LOWER THOSE VALUES BELOW THE MAGIC 105.

HRO   67  87  68  88 /  10  10   5   5
LIT   73  91  71  94 /  10  10   5   5
HOT   74  92  72  94 /  10  10   5   5
PBF   73  91  72  95 /  20  10   5   5

.LZK...NONE.

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ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-071000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
200 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS ARE COMBINING WITH AN
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN SECTIONS OF THE
STATE. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF REACHING
SEVERE LIMITS...WITH LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL
POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED
AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS.

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In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
437 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0433 PM    DANVILLE                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
08/06/03   YELL                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

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Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.