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Flash Flood Warning 141, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2008, 2:05 AM CDT for Garland County, Hot Spring County, Montgomery County, Arkansas. It was in force for 6 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
- Sep 3, 2008, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2008, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Montgomery County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:05 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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 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 Sep 2, 6:55 PM CDT, 7 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 6:55 PM CDT, 7 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 2, 5:00 AM CDT, 21 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-031000- 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 AM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE GUSTAV WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE AREA TODAY...AND FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THIS INCLUDES AREAS SOUTH OF A WALDRON...TO HOT SPRINGS...TO MONTICELLO LINE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE TWO TO FOUR INCHES ACROSS THIS AREA...WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. ALSO...SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM...AS THERE WILL BE TURNING OF WINDS WITH HEIGHT. AREAS SOUTH OF A FORT SMITH TO SEARCY LINE ARE UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES BEING THE PRIMARY CONCERNS. WITH THE INTENSE LOW PRESSURE TO THE SOUTH OF THE STATE...WINDS WILL BE GUSTY TODAY OVER THE SOUTHWEST HALF OF THE STATE. AS SUCH...A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE STATE INTO WEDNESDAY...AS THE AREA OF RAINFALL MOVES TO THE NORTH AND EAST. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR MUCH OF THE STATE...INCLUDING AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM MOUNTAIN HOME TO STUTTGART. AVERAGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN AREAS WILL BE TWO TO FIVE INCHES...WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS. PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS COULD RECEIVE MORE THAN EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN WITH THIS SYSTEM. RIVERS...SMALL STREAMS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS ACROSS THIS AREA COULD SEE RAPID RISES DUE TO THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY...AS THE STATE WILL REMAIN ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE TROPICAL SYSTEM. DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ONCE AGAIN BE THE SEVERE WEATHER CONCERNS. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE STATE FROM THE NORTH WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. THIS WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE THE REMNANTS OF GUSTAV AWAY FROM ARKANSAS. HOWEVER...IT WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR MORE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITH THE TROPICAL MOISTURE...AND MAY PROLONG THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE STATE THROUGH THURSDAY. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT RESIDENTS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS...INCLUDING WATCHES AND WARNINGS...FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE REGARDING THIS FLOODING AND SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY...WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 58
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:59 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 4 days |
| Sep 2, 8:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Marion, Stone | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 9:40 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 71 hr |
| Sep 2, 9:40 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 14 days |
| Sep 2, 9:40 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Union | 24 days |
| Sep 2, 9:43 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Saline | 60 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Saline | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Grant, Jefferson, Pulaski, Saline | 4 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Perry | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 21 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | White, Woodruff | 8 days |
| Sep 3, 8:59 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 36 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:59 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Prairie, White, Woodruff | 36 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:59 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Prairie | 36 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:59 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 36 hr |
| Sep 3, 9:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Logan, Lonoke, Newton and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 9:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Perry | 6 days |
| Sep 3, 10:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Pulaski, Saline | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 12:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Lonoke and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 12:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Ashley, Bradley, Cleveland, Drew | 8 days |
| Sep 3, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Stone, Van Buren, White | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Jefferson and 6 more | 6 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.