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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 1, 20135 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2013, 4:53 PM CDT for 5 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: Jun 1, 2013, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Garland County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 147 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Jun 1, 2:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 10:45 AM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 12:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 12:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 12:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 2:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:57 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:21 PM CDT, 32 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
Jun 1, 2:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone, Newton	44 min
Jun 1, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton	42 min
Jun 1, 2:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Newton, Searcy	35 min
Jun 1, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	44 min
Jun 1, 3:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	47 min
Jun 1, 4:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Stone	47 min
Jun 1, 4:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	32 min
Jun 1, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott, Yell	42 min
Jun 1, 5:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry, Pope, Yell	44 min
Jun 1, 6:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	45 min
Jun 1, 7:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Scott, Yell	48 min
Jun 1, 7:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Scott	6 hr
Jun 1, 7:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Logan	4 hr
Jun 1, 7:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	32 min
Jun 1, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Saline, Yell	45 min
Jun 1, 8:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	48 min
Jun 1, 9:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Polk	5 hr
Jun 1, 9:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Pulaski, Saline, Yell	5 hr
Jun 1, 9:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	49 min
Jun 1, 9:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Jackson, Lonoke, Prairie, White, Woodruff	3 hr
Jun 1, 10:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	48 min
Jun 1, 10:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson, Lawrence	13 days
Jun 1, 10:39 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Randolph	36 hr
Jun 1, 10:44 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Clay	36 hr
Jun 1, 11:01 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Randolph	36 hr
Jun 1, 11:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas	29 min
Jun 1, 11:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	28 min
Jun 1, 12:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	46 min
Jun 1, 12:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Scott	11 hr
Jun 1, 1:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Pike	3 hr
Jun 1, 1:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Polk, Pulaski, Saline	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Yell	26 hr
Jun 1, 2:55 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Yell	36 hr
Jun 1, 2:57 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Perry	36 hr
Jun 1, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Polk	28 min
Jun 1, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	31 min
Jun 1, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike, Polk	28 min
Jun 1, 4:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring, Pike	3 hr
Jun 1, 4:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	3 hr
Jun 1, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	35 min
Jun 1, 5:01 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Saline	36 hr
Jun 1, 5:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	41 hr
Jun 1, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	31 min
Jun 1, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun	26 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2013 Every flash flood warning in 2013

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.