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Flash Flood Warning 105, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 22, 2011Pulaski County, Saline County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2011, 11:23 AM CDT for Pulaski County, Saline County, 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: May 22, 2011, 11:23 AM CDT (16:23 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2011, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 1953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.2

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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 May 22, 6:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 5:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 8:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 8:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 9:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 9:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 11:03 AM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 11:22 AM CDT, 1 minute 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
May 21, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Ouachita	29 min
May 21, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pike	44 min
May 21, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita	50 min
May 21, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring	48 min
May 21, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Ouachita	50 min
May 21, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita	39 min
May 21, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring	28 min
May 21, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring	35 min
May 21, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	21 min
May 22, 2:40 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more	13 hr
May 22, 4:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike	47 min
May 22, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring	45 min
May 22, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	33 min
May 22, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery	42 min
May 22, 6:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	44 min
May 22, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Jefferson, Lincoln	39 min
May 22, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke	41 min
May 22, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	38 min
May 22, 6:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Saline	50 min
May 22, 7:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	51 min
May 22, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	31 min
May 22, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln	45 min
May 22, 7:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	44 min
May 22, 7:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	43 min
May 22, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Hot Spring, Pulaski, Saline	37 min
May 22, 7:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	47 min
May 22, 8:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland, Lincoln	46 min
May 22, 8:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland, Montgomery	44 min
May 22, 8:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	43 min
May 22, 8:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	17 min
May 22, 8:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas, Lincoln	47 min
May 22, 9:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Saline	46 min
May 22, 9:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring	27 min
May 22, 10:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	33 min
May 22, 10:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Woodruff	39 min
May 22, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	45 min
May 22, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski	42 min
May 22, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	47 min
May 22, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	41 min
May 22, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	43 min
May 22, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	45 min
May 22, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy, Stone, Van Buren	47 min
May 22, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Stone, Van Buren	50 min
May 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	46 min
May 22, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne	28 min
May 22, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	45 min
May 22, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	43 min
May 22, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Sharp, Stone	21 min
May 22, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren	3 hr
May 22, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Izard	47 min
May 22, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	22 min
May 22, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Stone	45 min
May 22, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard, Sharp	45 min
May 22, 6:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Stone	3 hr
May 22, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard, Sharp	32 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2011 Every flash flood warning in 2011

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.