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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 13, 201310 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jan 13, 2013, 12:33 AM CST for 10 counties in 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: Jan 13, 2013, 12:33 AM CST (06:33 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2013, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Grant County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 924 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 485 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 531 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.3
Supercell composite: 15.7

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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 Jan 12, 11:45 PM CST, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 11:45 PM CST, 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 12, 10:20 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 12, 10:30 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 12, 10:54 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 12, 11:07 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 12, 11:40 PM CST, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 13, 12:01 AM CST, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 13, 12:13 AM CST, 20 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
Jan 12, 6:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway	44 min
Jan 12, 6:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	3 hr
Jan 12, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott	35 min
Jan 12, 6:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike, Polk	44 min
Jan 12, 6:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	29 min
Jan 12, 6:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Conway, Logan, Perry, Pope, Van Buren, Yell	5 hr
Jan 12, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike, Polk	35 min
Jan 12, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren, White	49 min
Jan 12, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Yell	32 min
Jan 12, 7:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Yell	26 min
Jan 12, 7:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	33 min
Jan 12, 7:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry, Pope, Yell	32 min
Jan 12, 7:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Stone, White	24 min
Jan 12, 7:44 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Randolph	12 hr
Jan 12, 7:44 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence	6 days
Jan 12, 7:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Saline, Van Buren	40 min
Jan 12, 7:56 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Perry	3 days
Jan 12, 7:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pike	32 min
Jan 12, 8:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Sharp, White	45 min
Jan 12, 8:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Pike	37 min
Jan 12, 8:17 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	White, Woodruff	10 days
Jan 12, 8:17 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	White	12 hr
Jan 12, 8:27 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Pope, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren	3 hr
Jan 12, 9:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	118 min
Jan 12, 9:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Lonoke and 6 more	3 hr
Jan 12, 9:48 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Jackson and 4 more	3 hr
Jan 12, 9:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, White	37 min
Jan 12, 10:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita	3 hr
Jan 12, 10:22 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Yell	45 hr
Jan 12, 10:25 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson, White	45 min
Jan 12, 10:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke	46 min
Jan 12, 11:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Woodruff	43 min
Jan 12, 11:12 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	9 hr
Jan 12, 11:15 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	36 hr
Jan 12, 11:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita	23 min
Jan 13, 12:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Calhoun, Cleveland	44 min
Jan 13, 12:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	22 min
Jan 13, 12:46 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Ouachita	29 min
Jan 13, 1:11 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas	44 min
Jan 13, 1:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	30 min
Jan 13, 1:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Lincoln	35 min
Jan 13, 2:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	30 min
Jan 13, 3:59 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	16 hr
Jan 13, 4:01 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence	15 hr
Jan 13, 7:01 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln	3 hr
Jan 13, 8:53 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	19 hr
Jan 13, 9:55 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln	2 hr
Jan 13, 11:59 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe	3 hr

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.