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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Little Rock, AR

April 29, 2006Pulaski County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 2006, 2:10 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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
Apr 29, 2006, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2006, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pulaski County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2006-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2006-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 157 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Apr 29, 2:08 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 2:08 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
208 PM CDT SAT APR 29 2006

.DISCUSSION...
A RATHER STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE IN OUR
VICINITY...AND THE GULF OF MEXICO IS WIDE OPEN...THEREFORE PERIODS
OF HEAVY RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF
ARKANSAS TONIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY AND POSSIBLY BEYOND.(38)

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
LITTLE ROCK   AR  55  77  55  79 /  60  30  40  30
HARRISON AR       51  71  52  73 /  60  40  40  40
HOT SPRINGS AR    55  78  55  79 /  50  30  30  20
PINE BLUFF AR     56  79  55  81 /  60  30  30  30
MOUNTAIN HOME AR  52  71  52  73 /  60  40  40  40
MONTICELLO AR     57  80  56  84 /  70  20  30  20
SEARCY AR         55  75  54  77 /  70  30  40  40
MOUNT IDA AR      55  77  55  79 /  50  30  30  20
RUSSELLVILLE AR   54  75  54  77 /  60  30  40  30
&&

.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM SATURDAY FOR ARZ003-ARZ004-ARZ005-
ARZ006-ARZ007-ARZ012-ARZ013-ARZ014-ARZ015-ARZ016-ARZ021-ARZ022-
ARZ023-ARZ024-ARZ025-ARZ030-ARZ031-ARZ032-ARZ033-ARZ034-ARZ037-
ARZ038-ARZ039-ARZ040-ARZ041-ARZ042-ARZ043-ARZ044-ARZ045-ARZ046-
ARZ047-ARZ052-ARZ053-ARZ054-ARZ055-ARZ056-ARZ057-ARZ062-ARZ063-
ARZ064-ARZ065-ARZ066-ARZ067-ARZ068-ARZ069.

&&

SHORT AND LONG TERM...38
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 10:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1028 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-301000-
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-
1028 AM CDT SAT APR 29 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER ARKANSAS
WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT TO THE EAST...AND SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE STATE
BY EARLY THIS EVENING. CHANCES FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER ARE LOW.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE LIKELY TO BE IN THE RANGE OF 3/4 INCH TO 2
INCHES.

A NEW LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY TO ENTER WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON. THIS LINE WILL MOVE TOWARD THE EAST...AND SHOULD EXIT
EASTERN ARKANSAS TOWARD MIDNIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THIS LINE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT... ESPECIALLY
IN WESTERN ARKANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING.

A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM. SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST
WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 30 MPH AT TIMES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN HALF
OF ARKANSAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY EVENING.

CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN ARKANSAS ARE LIKELY TO INCREASE AGAIN
ON MONDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING...AND MAY CONTINUE ON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

AFTER THAT...THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL COME ON THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING...AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

&&

FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE
VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.WEATHER.GOV/LZK

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 8:55 PM CDTLake Wind AdvisoryLZKArkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more22 hr
Apr 29, 12:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPulaski2 hr
Apr 29, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKOuachita24 min
Apr 29, 6:52 PM CDTLake Wind AdvisoryLZKArkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more3 hr

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.