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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 12, 2010Faulkner County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2010, 5:16 PM CDT for Faulkner County, Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 12, 2010, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 2010, 7:23 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Faulkner County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 227 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 2010-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1840 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 2010-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1840 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.5

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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 Jul 11, 6:51 PM CDT, 22 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:51 PM CDT, 22 hours 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Independence, White23 min
Jul 11, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton, Marion60 min
Jul 11, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFulton, Sharp25 min
Jul 11, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion54 min
Jul 11, 9:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton, Marion3 hr
Jul 11, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone43 min
Jul 11, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCleburne, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Sharp, Stone43 min
Jul 11, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Boone, Marion33 min
Jul 12, 12:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBaxter, Boone, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Marion and 3 more6 hr
Jul 12, 12:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, White, Woodruff3 hr
Jul 12, 3:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchLZKArkansas, Baxter, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 20 more30 hr
Jul 12, 9:25 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKFulton, Sharp11 hr
Jul 12, 9:25 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKLawrence, Randolph11 hr
Jul 12, 10:28 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson, Lawrence10 hr
Jul 12, 11:00 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKWhite, Woodruff5 days
Jul 12, 11:00 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKJackson, Woodruff23 days
Jul 12, 2:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJackson27 min
Jul 12, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott, Yell49 min
Jul 12, 3:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKLogan, Scott, Yell3 hr
Jul 12, 3:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKSharp3 hr
Jul 12, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Izard, Marion, Searcy, Stone44 min
Jul 12, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSharp34 min
Jul 12, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKFaulkner, Lonoke, Perry, Pulaski, White40 min
Jul 12, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson48 min
Jul 12, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Hot Spring, Saline32 min
Jul 12, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKIndependence, Jackson44 min
Jul 12, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie, Woodruff24 min

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.