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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2010, 5:23 PM CDT for Baxter County, Fulton County, Izard County, Arkansas. It was in force for 119 min. 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 15, 2010, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2010, 7:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baxter County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Izard County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 2592 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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 15, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 300 PM CDT THU JUL 15 2010 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT HOT AND HUMID CONDS ONCE AGAIN NOTED ACRS THE FA THIS AFTN. MID AFTN READINGS IN THE 90S...WITH RESULTANT HEAT INDICES RUNNING FROM 105 TO 110 DEGREES. OUTFLOW BNDRY FM OVERNIGHT CONVECTION HAS DROPPED INTO NRN AR. MEANWHILE...ACTUAL CDFNT WAS SITUATED VCNTY OF THE I-44 CORRIDOR ACRS SW MO/NE OK WHERE SCTD CONVECTION CONTS TO DVLP. MODELS RMN IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH OVERALL FCST TRENDS THRU THE PD. THE UPR HIGH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HOT TEMPS WL CONT TO RETROGRADE WWD IN THE COMING DAYS...ALLOWING UPR FLOW ACRS THE MID SOUTH TO BCM NWLY. CDFNT TO THE NW OF AR ATTM WL DROP SWD INTO THE STATE TNGT AND FRI...WITH SCTD SHRA/TSRA CONTG VCNTY OF THE BNDRY. SOME OF THE MODELS HAVE TRENDED A BIT SLOWER WITH THE SWD MOVEMENT OF THE FNT... SO HEAT INDICES OVR SRN AR MAY BE A CONCERN. FOR NOW...WL ALLOW HEAT ADVY TO EXPIRE THIS EVENING AND MONITOR LATER FCST TRENDS. UNSETTLED WX WL LINGER INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEKEND...WITH CONTG SMALL CHCS OF PRECIP. UPR RDG WL BEGIN TO BLD BACK EWD LATE IN THE PD...WITH HOT TEMPS RETURNING TO THE MID SOUTH. RAIN CHCS WL ALSO BE ON THE DECLINE...WITH ONLY WDLY SCTD DIURNAL CONVECTION EXPECTED. HEAT ADVY CRITERIA WL AGAIN BE A CONCERN HEADING INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT TO START THE PERIOD. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE OUT OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST AND SLOWLY BUILD BACK OVER THE SE US CONUS....WITH THE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE REGION BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. THE HIGH WILL BRING KEEP HOT AND MUGGY WEATHER IN THE FORECAST. HAVE MADE SLIGHT CHANGES TO THE AFTERNOON HIGHS TO SHOW WARMER TEMPS BY THE END OF THE LONG TERM...WITH HEAT INDICES AROUND 100 TO 105. HAVE LEFT POPS IN TO FOLLOW A MAINLY DIURNAL CYCLE THROUGH THE FIRST PART OF THE LONG TERM FORECAST. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR 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. && SHORT TERM...44 / LONG TERM...62/224
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 5:00 AM CDT, 12 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT THU JUL 15 2010 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-161000- 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- 500 AM CDT THU JUL 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A LARGE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL BRING VERY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS TO ARKANSAS TODAY. A HEAT ADVISORY HAS BEEN POSTED AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE 90S THIS AFTERNOON. THIS COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL CREATE DANGEROUS HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 105 DEGREES OR GREATER IN MOST AREAS. THE HIGH WILL BEGIN BUILDING TO THE WEST TOWARD THE ROCKIES TONIGHT. A NORTHWEST WIND FLOW AROUND THE HIGH WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT TOWARD ARKANSAS...WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN AREAS TOWARD THE MISSOURI BORDER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON FRIDAY AS THE FRONT CONTINUES SAGGING SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE REGION. A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN. THE HIGH WILL REMAIN TO THE WEST THIS WEEKEND...AND THE FRONT MAY MAKE IT INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS BEFORE WASHING OUT. THE FRONT WILL BRING SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR...AND HEAT ADVISORIES MAY NOT BE NECESSARY. THE HIGH WILL HEAD BACK TO THE EAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE HIGH WILL SET UP OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES BY THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...AND OPPRESSIVE CONDITIONS MAY RETURN. ONCE THE HIGH IS ESTABLISHED...RAIN CHANCES WILL BE MINIMAL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON FRIDAY AS A COLD FRONT BRINGS A CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 46
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:19 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 44 min |
| Jul 15, 6:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion, Searcy | 116 min |
| Jul 15, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone | 113 min |
| Jul 15, 6:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Sharp | 112 min |
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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.