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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2013, 8:56 PM CDT for Hot Spring 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
- Jun 1, 2013, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2013, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Hot Spring County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 3595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.8
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 Jun 1, 6:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 6:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 1, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 7:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Saline | 38 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring, Pike | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:52 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 36 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Polk | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Bradley, Drew | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Drew | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 9:03 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Randolph | 10 days |
| Jun 2, 4:54 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Yell | 36 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:09 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Perry | 52 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:52 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 12 days |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2013Every 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.