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Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 5, 20105 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2010, 6:01 PM CDT for 5 counties in 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: Aug 5, 2010, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

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

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 277 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 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 Aug 5, 2:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 4:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:07 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:11 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:25 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:42 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:47 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:50 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	27 min
Aug 4, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	27 min
Aug 4, 10:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	2 hr
Aug 5, 10:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Marion	28 min
Aug 5, 1:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	32 min
Aug 5, 1:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	31 min
Aug 5, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	32 min
Aug 5, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Izard	30 min
Aug 5, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	32 min
Aug 5, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Pope, Yell	46 min
Aug 5, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pope	40 min
Aug 5, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	51 min
Aug 5, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	31 min
Aug 5, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Perry, Pulaski, Saline	45 min
Aug 5, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	41 min
Aug 5, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	39 min
Aug 5, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	28 min
Aug 5, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell	39 min
Aug 5, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	38 min
Aug 5, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, White	38 min
Aug 5, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	49 min
Aug 5, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Pope	34 min
Aug 5, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	52 min
Aug 5, 3:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	White	118 min
Aug 5, 3:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	3 hr
Aug 5, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, White	49 min
Aug 5, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff	37 min
Aug 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	2 hr
Aug 5, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	31 min
Aug 5, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun	39 min
Aug 5, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski	49 min
Aug 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	42 min
Aug 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln	37 min
Aug 5, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	45 min
Aug 5, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie	49 min
Aug 5, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln	40 min
Aug 5, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln	45 min
Aug 5, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln	41 min
Aug 5, 6:19 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	LZK	Pike	20 hr
Aug 5, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley, Desha, Drew	57 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2010 Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.