Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 4, 2006, 6:46 AM CDT for 4 counties in 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
- May 4, 2006, 6:46 AM CDT (11:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2006, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:49 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1050 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 May 4, 6:38 AM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 6:38 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 5:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-051000- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 500 AM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL COVER MUCH OF NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY IN MANY AREAS AND SOME FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF ARKANSAS. THE RAIN MAY DECREASE LATER THIS MORNING BUT NEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND A NEW COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE IN PLACE BY EARLY TONIGHT WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN AND A RISK OF FLASH FLOODING. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. THE BEST CHANCE OF ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN THE REST OF THE AREA...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON THEN MAY CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL BE POSSIBLE AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO OCCUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY SINK TO THE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND FRIDAY THEN SHOULD DROP TO THE SOUTH OF THE STATE. UPPER LEVEL LOWS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. HEAVY RAINS WHICH COULD RESULT IN SOME FLOODING... AND ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL BE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL TEND TO DEVELOP AROUND MIDDAY OR IN THE AFTERNOON AND INCREASE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. COMPLEXES OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP BY EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE NIGHT BEFORE DECREASING. RAIN WILL LIKELY BE AT A MINIMUM DURING THE MORNING. THE BEST CHANCE FOR ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WHILE THE BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WILL BE DURING THE NIGHT. CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PRESENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE CHANCE OF HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LESS DURING THIS PERIOD...BUT COULD STILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. && FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK 29
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 4, 6:12 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
612 AM CDT THU MAY 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0515 AM FLASH FLOOD HARRISON 36.24N 93.12W
05/04/2006 BOONE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
STREET FLOODING NEAR UNION ROAD.
&&
57Local storm report, May 4, 6:25 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
625 AM CDT THU MAY 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0515 AM FLASH FLOOD HARRISON 36.24N 93.12W
05/04/2006 BOONE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
STREET FLOODING NEAR UNION ROAD.
0540 AM FLASH FLOOD CASSCOE 34.52N 91.32W
05/04/2006 ARKANSAS AR PUBLIC
STREET FLOODING IN CASSCOE.
&&
57The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 45 min |
| May 4, 12:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Stone | 2 hr |
| May 4, 3:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Independence and 13 more | 16 hr |
| May 4, 4:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone | 3 hr |
| May 4, 5:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 3 hr |
| May 4, 6:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | White | 3 hr |
| May 4, 8:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Stone | 2 hr |
| May 4, 8:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski | 117 min |
| May 4, 8:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson | 2 hr |
| May 4, 8:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Logan, Yell | 116 min |
| May 4, 10:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski | 3 hr |
| May 4, 12:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | White | 3 hr |
| May 4, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 62 min |
| May 4, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 61 min |
| May 4, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 46 min |
| May 4, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Drew | 49 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.