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Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2008, 10:43 AM CDT for Jackson County, Arkansas. It was in force for 92 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 27, 2008, 10:43 AM CDT (15:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2008, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Jackson County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 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
- 1535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1425 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 27, 8:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 8:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 8:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 835 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-281000- 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- 835 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE STATE TODAY. THIS INCLUDES AREAS SOUTH OF CLARKSVILLE AND NEWPORT. HOT TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL CREATE HEAT INDEX VALUES OVER 105 DEGREES. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE POPPING UP AHEAD OF A SYSTEM ALOFT IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. HIT AND MISS PRECIPITATION WAS OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE THIS MORNING. PRECIPITATION MAY DISSIPATE BRIEFLY...BUT IS EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE THROUGH THIS EVENING...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN CONCERNS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...RESULTING IN HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS. A HEAT ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING...AND WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED INTO THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK. LITTLE IF ANY PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY EARLY IN THE WEEK. THERE IS SOME INDICATION THAT HIGH PRESSURE MAY WEAKEN OR SHIFT TO THE WEST BY WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY...WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS RETURNING AND TEMPERATURES COOLING SLIGHTLY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED...WITH ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS EXPECTED TODAY. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 61/44/46
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 9:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 27, 10:19 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1019 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ARZ025-271545- JACKSON- 1019 AM CDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR JACKSON COUNTY UNTIL 1045 AM CDT... AT 1019 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM GRUBBS TO AMAGON AND BLACKVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN...WITH 1 TO 2 INCH AMOUNTS IN EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. PEOPLE IN EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY SHOULD STAY INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | White, Woodruff | 5 days |
| Jul 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Newton | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Newton, Searcy | 51 min |
| Jul 27, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 30 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.