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Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 20, 2007Calhoun County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2007, 8:52 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Arkansas. It was in force for 113 min. 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 20, 2007, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2007, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Whole counties

County Calhoun County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 265 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2007-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1819 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2007-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 20, 6:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 6:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 5:00 AM CDT, 15 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-211000-
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 FRI JUL 20 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS TODAY...AND PASS
THROUGH THE STATE DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY AND INTO THE
NIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
AS THIS FRONT MOVES THROUGH. ISOLATED STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO
SEVERE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

THE FRONT WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE OUT OF THE AREA AND SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER OVER THE SOUTH AND WEST ON SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.

&&

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 20, 3:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
319 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007

ARZ021-202105-
JOHNSON-
319 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR JOHNSON COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

AT 315 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...NEAR LUDWIG LAKE...MOVING SOUTH AT
20 MPH.

THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...SMALL
HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY
CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.

PEOPLE IN JOHNSON COUNTY...INCLUDING LAMAR...SHOULD MONITOR THE
WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE
PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.

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Local storm report, Jul 20, 6:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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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.