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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2007, 2:51 PM CDT for Pulaski 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
- Jul 5, 2007, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 1096 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 5, 1:54 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 1:54 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 154 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2007 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS FROM SOUTHERN MISSOURI WILL CONTINUE TO SINK INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. FRONT WILL NOT MAKE IT VERY FAR BEFORE STALLING OUT...AND EVENTUALLY WASHING OUT. AT THE SAME TIME...UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL/SOUTHEAST TEXAS WILL MOVE SLIGHTLY NORTHEASTWARD...CONTINUING THE CHANCE FOR MOSTLY DIURNAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS...GREATEST POPS WILL BE OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE AREA...AS SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR MOVES INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS BEHIND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. INDICATIONS ARE THAT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM...THE UPPER LOW OR TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT MUCH OF THE MID SOUTH. THE SYSTEM MAY BECOME MORE OF AN OPEN WAVE...AND PROGRESS SLIGHTLY NORTHEASTWARD...BUT ITS PRESENCE WILL BE FELT IN THE FORM OF CONTINUED RAIN CHANCES...INCREASED CLOUD COVER...AND NEAR TO BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. && .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SOME KIND OF WEAK UPPER TROF REMAINS NEAR THE AREA THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD. MODELS KEEP TRYING TO DRIVE A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA BY THE END OF THE PERIOD BUT HAVE NOT BEEN RIGHT ABOUT THIS FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AND AM SKEPTICAL ABOUT IT THIS TIME. BASICALLY WENT WITH MORE OF THE SAME WITH SOME MENTION OF A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE PERIOD. DID TEND TO GO A LITTLE HIGHER ON POPS DURING THE AFTERNOONS. DID NOT INDICATE MUCH CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE WITH MINS AROUND 70 TO THE LOWER 70S AND MAXES IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S. DID HEDGE TEMPS DOWN A COUPLE OF DEGREES TOWARD THE END OF THE PERIOD WHICH COULD RESULT FROM INCREASED CLOUDS AS MUCH AS FROM THE EFFECTS OF ANY FRONT THAT MAY MANAGE TO REACH THE AREA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... BATESVILLE AR 70 89 68 90 / 40 30 20 20 CAMDEN AR 72 84 69 91 / 50 50 30 30 HARRISON AR 69 90 67 89 / 40 20 20 20 HOT SPRINGS AR 71 87 69 89 / 50 40 30 30 LITTLE ROCK AR 72 88 71 91 / 50 40 30 30 MONTICELLO AR 72 84 71 91 / 60 50 30 30 MOUNT IDA AR 70 86 65 87 / 50 40 30 30 MOUNTAIN HOME AR 71 94 68 92 / 40 20 20 20 NEWPORT AR 70 90 68 91 / 40 30 20 20 PINE BLUFF AR 72 87 70 89 / 50 50 30 30 RUSSELLVILLE AR 71 90 65 90 / 40 30 30 30 SEARCY AR 72 89 69 90 / 50 40 30 30 STUTTGART AR 72 89 72 90 / 50 50 30 30 && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...57 / LONG TERM...29
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 5:01 AM CDT, 9 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 501 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2007 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-061015- 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- 501 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER EAST TEXAS WILL SPREAD SOME ENERGY NORTH TOWARD SOUTH ARKANSAS...WHICH WILL HELP DEVELOP SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS TODAY. THIS AFTERNOON...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ARKANSAS. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH ARKANSAS FROM THE NORTH...AND HELP FORM ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR NORTHERN PARTS OF THE STATE. ISOLATED HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. THE THREAT OF ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A WEAK FRONT OVER ARKANSAS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...COMBINED WITH SOME UPPER LEVEL ENERGY FROM A LOW OVER EAST TEXAS...WILL HELP FOCUS SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BOTH DAYS. ON SUNDAY... THE FRONT WASHES OUT...AND THE CHANCES OF RAIN LOWER. OTHERWISE... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND INTO NEXT WEEK. SOME HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH STORMS. THE THREAT FOR ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN LOW THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 59
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 5, 2:42 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:10 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Conway, Perry | 18 days |
| Jul 5, 9:10 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln | 18 days |
| Jul 5, 3:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 115 min |
| Jul 5, 3:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence | 113 min |
| Jul 5, 5:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Boone, Marion | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Fulton | 2 hr |
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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.