Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 105, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Nov 23, 2004, 4:24 PM CST for Grant 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 23, 2004, 4:24 PM CST (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2004, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grant County, AR
The radar
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 23, 2:34 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 2:34 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 234 PM CST TUE NOV 23 2004 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT... SHORT TERM MODELS HAVE COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE SYSTEM PULLING OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST CONUS. BIGGEST DISCREPANCY CONTINUES TO BE IN THE QPF FIELDS WITH GFS DEVELOPING A BULLS EYE OVER THE RWHILE THE OTHER MODELS NOT REALLY PICKING UP ON. WITH THE OTHER PARAMETERS BEING IN SUCH GOOD AGREEMENT WILL GO WITH A BLEND OF SOLUTIONS WITH A LEAN TOWARDS THE SLIGHTLY SLOWER ETA. FIRST WAVE OF LIGHT RAIN ENDED EARLY TODAY WITH MAIN SHOW STARTING TO COME IN FROM THE WEST. DEEP CONVECTION FIRED UP OVER EASTERN TEXAS/OKLAHOMA EARLY IN AN AREA OF FAVORABLE DYNAMICS ON THE NOSE OF A HIGH LEVEL JET STREAK ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE SOUTHWEST CONUS TROUGH. PRECIPITATION AREA AS FAR EAST AS WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. FEATURE CLEARLY SEEN ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY THIS AFTERNOON SPINNING OVER THE NEW MEXICO/TEXAS BORDER...FAVORABLE DIVERGENT PATTERN ALSO SEEN ON WATER VAPOR CHANNEL. CONVECTION FIRING UP ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHED OUT ACROSS EASTERN TEXAS. SURFACE LOW FORECAST TO DEVELOP IN NORTHEAST TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND LIFT OUT IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIN UPPER SYSTEM. EXPECTING LINE OF STORMS TO SWEEP THROUGH THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA UNDER A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 03Z AND THIS SEEMS REASONABLE WITH A WARM FRONT IN THE VICINITY TO HELP WITH ADDITIONAL LIFT. SEVERE WEATHER ALREADY CONFIRMED IN MONTOGERMY COUNTY AT THIS TIME. UPPER WAVE MOVES INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS BY MORNING WITH TROF AXIS PASSING THROUGH LATER WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SURFACE REFLECTION OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS BY WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH CONSIDERABLE DRY SLOT OVER THE STATE. DRY SLOT FILLS IN RATHER QUICKLY THOUGH AS MOISTURE WRAPS AROUND THE BACKSIDE OF THE DEPARTING LOW. WILL TAPER OFF POPS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. RATHER TIGHT GRADIENT SPELLS A BREEZY DAY WITH COLD AIR ADVECTION PATTERN IN THE WAKE OF THE SYSTEM. TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY TO BE ESPECIALLY TRICKY WITH VERY LITTLE WARMING EXPECTED OVER THE NORTH AND MINIMAL WARMING ELSEWHERE. MAV NUMBERS RUNNING A FEW DEGREES COOLER THAN THE FWC GUIDANCE AND APPEARS MORE REASONABLE AND AS SUCH WILL LEAN ITS WAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE GULF COAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THANKSGIVING DAY WITH CLEARING SKIES. TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY NIGHT WILL FALL INTO THE UPPER 20S OVER THE NORTH. FREEZE WARNINGS MAY NEED TO BE HOISTED. HIGH MOVES OFF TO THE EAST BY LATE THURSDAY WITH SOUTHERLY SURFACE WINDS RETURNING LATE BUT COOL CONDITIONS STILL EXPECTED. WEAK WAVE MOVES THROUGH ON NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT BUT MOISTURE IS LIMITED. ZONAL FLOW ALOFT FOR FRIDAY BUT ANOTHER DRY BUT COOL DAY. NEXT TROF APPROACHES FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. SYSTEM NOT NEARLY AS IMPRESSIVE AS STORM MOVING THROUGH NOW BUT ENOUGH MOISTURE AND DYNAMICS AROUND TO JUSTIFY SCATTERED POPS. TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN COOL. && .LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... BY EARLY SUNDAY...THE PREFERRED GFSLR MODEL SHOWS ARKANSAS UNDER A NEARLY ZONAL UPPER LEVEL FLOW WITH A LIMITED AMOUNT OF MEAN RH. AN AREA OF SOMEWHAT HIGHER MOISTURE IS HOWEVER AT THAT TIME EXPECTED TO BE MOVING ACROSS OKLAHOMA TOWARDS ARKANSAS. BY MONDAY MORNING...A CUT-OFF H5 LOW HAS DEVELOPED AND DROPPED SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THE FOUR CORNERS REGION...WITH UPPER FLOW OVER ARKANSAS NOW BECOMING MORE OF A SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST FLOW. THE HIGHER MOISTURE IS NOW MAINLY CONCENTRATED OVER THE NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF ARKANSAS. A DRIER AIRMASS WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION BY TUESDAY. NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL PREVAIL SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH COOLER THAN NORMAL WEATHER EXPECTED BY TUESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... LITTLE ROCK AR 50 57 34 52 / 80 70 10 10 HARRISON AR 43 45 27 49 / 90 90 20 10 HOT SPRINGS AR 50 57 33 52 / 80 60 10 10 PINE BLUFF AR 53 60 36 53 / 80 50 10 10 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 44 46 28 49 / 90 90 30 10 MONTICELLO AR 55 61 37 54 / 80 40 10 10 SEARCY AR 49 55 33 51 / 80 70 20 10 MOUNT IDA AR 50 56 32 51 / 80 60 10 10 RUSSELLVILLE AR 47 52 30 50 / 80 80 10 10 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 56/38
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 23, 10:30 AM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Nov 23, 4:11 PM CST, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
411 PM CST TUE NOV 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0210 PM HAIL 4 W JESSIEVILLE 34.70N 93.14W
11/23/2004 0.75 INCH GARLAND AR PARK/FOREST SRVC
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BBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery | 60 min |
| Nov 23, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 44 min |
| Nov 23, 2:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Saline | 41 min |
| Nov 23, 3:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 3:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 3:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 3:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 4:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 5:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 5:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Nov 23, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 52 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.