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Flash Flood Warning 128, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 2008, 2:34 PM CDT for Boone County, Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 93 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
- Aug 7, 2008, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2008, 4:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Boone County, AR, Marion County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 796 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 Aug 6, 6:42 PM CDT, 19 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:42 PM CDT, 19 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 3:30 PM CDT, 23 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 330 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2008 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-071000- 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- 330 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ABUNDANT MOISTURE ACROSS THE STATE WILL ALLOW ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN CONCERNS THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO...THE STORMS WILL NOT MOVE MUCH...BRINGING THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL. LATER THIS EVENING...A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE STATE FROM THE NORTH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT. ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN CONCERNS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE STATE THURSDAY...AND WILL STALL OUT ACROSS THE STATE. THIS WILL KEEP SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. DUE TO THE ABUNDANT MOISTURE ACROSS THE STATE...LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL REMAIN A CONCERN. DRY WEATHER WILL RETURN TO THE STATE FOR THE WEEKEND. .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. 58
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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.