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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Apr 10, 2008, 9:57 PM CDT for Bradley County, Desha County, Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 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
- Apr 10, 2008, 9:57 PM CDT (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bradley County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Apr 10, 6:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 6:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 10:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1030 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-111000- 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- 1030 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...A DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE ACROSS ARKANSAS IS EXPECTED TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT DANGEROUS SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED TODAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE STATE TODAY. ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL BE IN PLACE AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AS WELL AS SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THESE CONDITIONS...ALONG WITH A POWERFUL MID AND UPPER LEVEL WIND FIELD...WILL PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-LIVED...SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION TO SEVERE WEATHER...HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. WITH THE GROUND NEARLY SATURATED IN MOST AREAS...IT WILL NOT TAKE A LOT OF RAIN TO PRODUCE ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ALSO AFFECT RIVER FLOODING CONDITIONS. RESIDENTS ACROSS ARKANSAS ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER...AND FLASH FLOOD SAFETY RULES. ALSO...PLEASE MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF RIVERS...STREAMS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL...EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THIS INCLUDES THE BLACK RIVER...THE LOWER WHITE RIVER...THE CACHE AND OUACHITA RIVERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF RIVERS...STREAMS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL...EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THIS INCLUDES THE BLACK RIVER...THE LOWER WHITE RIVER...THE CACHE AND OUACHITA RIVERS. SHOWERS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS MOISTURE WRAPS AROUND THE DEPARTING LOW. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE IN BEHIND THE DEPARTING STORM FOR SEVERAL DAYS OF DRY CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED ACROSS MOST AREAS ON TODAY. && MORE INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY CAN BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LZK/HTML/SVR0408.HTM 58
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 8:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:54 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Baxter, Cleburne, Conway, Fulton, Independence, Izard and 4 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:48 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Pulaski | 21 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.