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Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 14, 20078 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jan 14, 2007, 12:32 PM CST for 8 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 5 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
Jan 14, 2007, 12:32 PM CST (18:32 UTC)
Expired
Jan 14, 2007, 5:30 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cleburne County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Perry County, AR, Prairie County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 358 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 2007-01-14Temperature 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2007-01-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 334 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
453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
351 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 Jan 13, 5:51 PM CST, 18 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 5:51 PM CST, 18 hours 41 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 5:00 PM CST, 19 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-141100-
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 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM TEXARKANA TO PINE BLUFF TO NEAR HELENA
THIS EVENING. AFTER SOME MOVEMENT TO THE SOUTH EARLIER TODAY...THE
BOUNDARY HAS EFFECTIVELY STALLED. PERIODS OF RAIN AND ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT.
RAINFALL COULD BE LOCALLY HEAVY AT TIMES THROUGH TONIGHT OVER NORTH
CENTRAL...WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS WHERE BETWEEN ONE AND
THREE INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE COMMON. THIS RAIN WILL FALL ON AREAS
THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN SATURATED FROM RAIN EARLIER SATURDAY. A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LOCATIONS NORTH OF A LINE FROM
ARKADELPHIA TO LITTLE ROCK TO BRINKLEY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS FORECAST TO REMAIN STALLED OUT OVER SOUTH
CENTRAL ARKANSAS ON SUNDAY. THE FRONT WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR
ADDITIONAL PERIODS OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AS A SERIES OF
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES TRACK NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE REGION.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
ARKANSAS ON SUNDAY. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR TWO OF RAIN IS EXPECTED
SUNDAY...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. THUS...THE FLASH
FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY FOR MUCH OF
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

WITH DORMANT VEGETATION....WATER RUNOFF COULD BUILD QUICKLY WITH
HIGH WATER PROBLEMS DEVELOPING. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW WATER
CROSSINGS IS ALMOST A CERTAINTY. ANY EXCESSIVE WATER WOULD FLOW INTO
TRIBUTARIES AND EVENTUALLY INTO THE MAJOR WATERWAYS WITH RIVER
FLOODING POSSIBLE.

BY SUNDAY NIGHT...THE MAIN STORM SYSTEM IN THE ROCKIES WILL LIFT
NORTHEASTWARD AND PUSH THE COLD FRONT THROUGH THE REST OF THE STATE.
RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT AS IT
SHIFTS TO THE SOUTHEAST.

MUCH COLDER AIR WILL FOLLOW THE FRONT SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. THERE
IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE RAIN COULD MIX WITH OR EVEN CHANGE TO
FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL
ARKANSAS SUNDAY NIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. THE PRECIPITATION OVER
NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS SHOULD END BY MIDDAY MONDAY AS DRIER
AIR WORKS INTO THE AREA. TEMPERATURES OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN WARM ENOUGH FOR THE PRECIPITATION TO
REMAIN IN THE FORM OF LIGHT RAIN BEFORE ENDING EARLY MONDAY EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR OFFICIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST FOR
THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION.

DRIER AND COLDER WEATHER WILL PREVAIL FOR THE REST OF THE PERIOD
THANKS TO ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE. TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY MODERATE
LATER IN THE WEEK AS THE CENTER OF THE HIGH SHIFTS EASTWARD.

.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

&&

FOR THE LATEST GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS...PLEASE
VISIT OUR WEBSITE 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
Jan 13, 7:13 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKIzard, Searcy, Sharp, Stone6 hr
Jan 13, 7:13 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKFulton, Izard, Searcy, Sharp, Stone6 hr
Jan 13, 8:39 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKConway, Van Buren4 hr
Jan 13, 9:02 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Pike6 hr
Jan 13, 11:10 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKPulaski, Saline3 hr
Jan 14, 8:56 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKCalhoun, Clark, Dallas, Ouachita, Pike3 hr
Jan 14, 10:34 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKGarland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski and 1 more4 hr
Jan 14, 11:57 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKCalhoun, Clark, Dallas, Ouachita3 hr
Jan 14, 12:32 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner, Perry5 hr
Jan 14, 3:07 PM CSTFreezing Rain AdvisoryLZKBaxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Stone12 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.