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Flash Flood Warning 122, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2008, 3:56 PM CDT for 5 counties in 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 22, 2008, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2008, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Boone County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Van Buren County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1917 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 22, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 253 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2008 .DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON IN RESPONSE TO BOUNDARY MOVING THROUGH AREA FROM THIS MORNINGS MCS. ALSO...ANOTHER BOUNDARY IS MOVING SOUTH FROM MISSOURI. THESE TWO BOUNDARIES WILL KEEP SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH AT LEAST SUNSET. THE LARGE AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE REGION IS SLOWLY MOVING BACK TO THE WEST...LEAVING THE AREA IN NORTHWEST FLOW. A WEAK FRONT ACROSS MISSOURI WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTH...BUT WILL NOT MAKE IT FAR INTO THE STATE. HAVE THE HIGHEST POPS TONIGHT ACROSS THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST. NORTHWEST FLOW WILL BRING DISTURBANCES ACROSS THE AREA...WITH AT LEAST SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. TEMPERATURES WILL BE A LITTLE COOLER FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...WITH READINGS IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S. HOWEVER...HEAT INDEX READINGS WILL STILL BE HIGH...WITH READINGS AROUND 100 DEGREES. TEMPERATURES WILL THEN REACH INTO THE UPPER 90S AROUND THE WEEKEND...AS CLOUD COVER WILL NOT BE AS THICK. AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK...BUT HAVE LEFT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS GOING THROUGH THE EXTENDED. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 58/46/61
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 1:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 130 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-231000- 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- 130 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COOL OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ASSOCIATED WITH STORMS IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING WAS MOVING INTO CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE POPPING UP ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. HIT AND MISS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY INTO THIS EVENING. WITH TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE 90S TO AROUND 100 DEGREES...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE VERY UNSTABLE...AND STORMS WILL TEND TO DEVELOP QUICKLY. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI WILL PUSH INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. THESE STORMS ARE IN ASSOCIATION WITH A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH. STORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE THROUGHOUT THE REGION. PENNY SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERNS. IN ADDITION TO PRECIPITATION...IT WILL BE VERY HOT ACROSS THE STATE. HEAT INDICES FROM 100 TO 105 DEGREES CAN BE EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. WHILE THESE HEAT INDICES FALL JUST SHORT OF HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA...IT IS STILL DANGEROUS TO OVER EXERT YOURSELF DURING THE HOTTEST TIME OF THE DAY. REMEMBER TO STAY HYDRATED AND REDUCE STRENUOUS ACTIVITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN AGAIN ACROSS THE STATE AS THE FRONT FROM THE NORTH BECOMES STATIONARY. THEY WILL MAINLY FORM DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE STATE. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...BUT AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM MAY BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN AREAS. ISOLATED STORMS WILL STAY IN THE FORECAST THROUGH MONDAY...AND MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON TO EVENINGS. DUE TO THE CHANCES OF RAIN AND INCREASED CLOUDS...HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO LOWER ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...BUT STILL BE FROM THE MID TO UPPER 90S. THESE OVERALL CONDITIONS WILL HOLD THROUGH MONDAY. .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. 59/46
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 22, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Polk | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Perry, Saline | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton | 64 min |
| Jul 22, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Searcy | 53 min |
| Jul 22, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 67 min |
| Jul 22, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland, Drew | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Searcy, Stone | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Dallas | 30 min |
| Jul 22, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Pope, Yell | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Pulaski | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 33 min |
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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.