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Flash Flood Warning 104, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 28, 2008Fulton County, Sharp County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2008, 5:15 AM CDT for Fulton County, Sharp 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
Jun 28, 2008, 5:15 AM CDT (10:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2008, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Fulton County, AR, Sharp County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:17 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 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2008-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1977 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2008-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 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
1977 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
7.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 8:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKFulton, Sharp92 min
Jun 28, 10:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchLZKBaxter, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 17 more12 hr
Jun 28, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMontgomery, Polk, Scott47 min
Jun 28, 5:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike3 hr
Jun 28, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Hot Spring, Pike46 min
Jun 28, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Pike49 min
Jun 28, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2008Every flash flood warning in 2008

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.