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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this red flag warning at Apr 1, 2009, 1:50 PM CDT for 14 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
- Apr 1, 2009, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
Counties Baxter County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Conway County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Marion County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pike County, AR, Saline County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 1, 11:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 11:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2:45 PM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LZK | Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more | 34 hr |
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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.