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Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS Little Rock, AR

September 17, 20094 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Sep 17, 2009, 2:38 PM CDT for 4 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 17, 2009, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 2009, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Cleveland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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, 7.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2009-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 353 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2009-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
353 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 16, 6:45 PM CDT, 19 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 6:45 PM CDT, 19 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 3:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBradley, Calhoun, Ouachita60 min
Sep 17, 9:23 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKCalhoun, Ouachita7 days
Sep 17, 9:23 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKBradley, Calhoun, Union13 days
Sep 17, 9:52 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKWhite, Woodruff12 days
Sep 17, 4:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBradley, Calhoun, Ouachita3 hr
Sep 17, 4:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCalhoun, Ouachita3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2009Every flash flood warning in 2009

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.