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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 9, 2007Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2007, 9:25 AM CDT for Hot Spring 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
Jul 9, 2007, 9:25 AM CDT (14:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2007, 11:30 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2007-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2246 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2007-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2246 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 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 Jul 9, 8:30 AM CDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 8:30 AM CDT, 55 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 7:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
755 AM CDT MON JUL 9 2007

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-101000-
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-
755 AM CDT MON JUL 9 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY.
NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED BUT ISOLATED STORMS MAY
BRIEFLY BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
ALSO...CONSIDERABLE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS
EXPECTED. IF THREATENING CLOUDS ARE SIGHTED APPROACHING FROM THE
SOUTHWEST...PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE OF
THE DANGER FROM LIGHTNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE
WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF
THE UPCOMING WEEK...OCCURRING MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING. LOCALIZED GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND FLOODING COULD RESULT
BUT NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK
ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
639 AM CDT MON JUL 9 2007

ARZ053-091220-
CLARK-
639 AM CDT MON JUL 9 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CLARK COUNTY UNTIL 715 AM CDT...

AT 635 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GUM SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...ONE HALF INCH
DIAMETER OR LESS...WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY
DOWNPOURS.

AREAS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE ARKADELPHIA AND CADDO VALLEY.

FREQUENT...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF
OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE
INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS
AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 8:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson3 hr
Jul 9, 9:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKPulaski, Saline2 hr
Jul 9, 10:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKFaulkner2 hr
Jul 9, 2:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKNewton113 min
Jul 9, 4:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBradley, Calhoun, Ouachita117 min

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.