Alert archive / Arkansas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this red flag warning at Oct 27, 2008, 10:15 AM CDT for 25 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Oct 27, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT. 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
- Oct 27, 2008, 10:15 AM CDT (15:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 27, 2008, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
All 25 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 2281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 109 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 12:28 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:38 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas and 12 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:38 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 29 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.