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Flash Flood Warning 149, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 2008, 11:54 PM CDT for 9 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 5 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 13, 2008, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2008, 5:13 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 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, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 Sep 13, 6:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 6:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT SAT SEP 13 2008 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-141000- 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 SAT SEP 13 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HURRICANE IKE MADE LANDFALL ALONG THE TEXAS GULF COAST EARLY THIS MORNING...AND WILL BEGIN AFFECTING ARKANSAS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED. RAIN WILL BECOME LIKELY OVER WESTERN ARKANSAS TODAY...AND WILL SPREAD OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE TONIGHT. THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...3 TO 6 INCH AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE GENERALLY WEST OF HARDY...MORRILTON AND CAMDEN...WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES FARTHER EAST. A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF ARKANSAS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. THE SOIL IS NEARLY SATURATED IN SOME AREAS DUE TO WELL ABOVE NORMAL RAIN IN AUGUST...AND THIS WILL MAKE FLOODING MORE LIKELY DURING THIS UPCOMING EVENT. VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL BE NOTED IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHEAST WINDS AT 30 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED...WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 50 MPH. THESE WINDS WILL SPREAD TO THE NORTHEAST TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT IN THE SOUTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON...AND IN MUCH OF ARKANSAS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES WILL LIKELY BE DOWNED. TREES WILL BE PUSHED OVER MORE READILY DUE TO WET SOIL CONDITIONS. THERE IS ALSO A CONCERN ABOUT SEVERE WEATHER. WITH SOME WARMING THIS AFTERNOON...AND AS SHEAR INCREASES AS THE CENTER OF IKE APPROACHES...ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY FORM IN DEVELOPING STORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE THE REMNANTS OF IKE EXIT TO THE NORTHEAST. IKE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A COLD FRONT...AND COOLER AND DRIER AIR. BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE FORECAST TO BEGIN THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES EXPECTED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 61/46
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 13, 5:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
556 PM CDT SAT SEP 13 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0525 PM TSTM WND DMG KEO 34.61N 92.01W
09/13/2008 LONOKE AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
DEBRIS IS ON HIGHWAY 165 NEAR KEO.
&&
58Local storm report, Sep 13, 6:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 9:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Saline | 12 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Logan, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 34 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Perry | 34 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:31 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 11 hr |
| Sep 14, 4:07 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 6:46 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 15 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.