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Flash Flood Warning 142, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2008, 9:13 AM CDT for 9 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
- Sep 3, 2008, 9:13 AM CDT (14:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2008, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Conway County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:14 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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, 14 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 6:55 PM CDT, 14 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>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, 2:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery | 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, 9:39 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.