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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 22, 2013Logan County, Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2013, 4:44 PM CDT for Logan County, Yell County, Arkansas. It was in force for 106 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: Jul 22, 2013, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2013, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 106 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Logan County, AR, Yell County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -360 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.9

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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 Jul 22, 2:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 12:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:15 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:35 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:43 PM 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
Jul 21, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Fulton	43 min
Jul 22, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton	27 min
Jul 22, 6:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton, Searcy	31 min
Jul 22, 8:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner	46 min
Jul 22, 9:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	45 min
Jul 22, 11:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	45 min
Jul 22, 12:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	26 min
Jul 22, 1:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	25 min
Jul 22, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	White	25 min
Jul 22, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	44 min
Jul 22, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	30 min
Jul 22, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	31 min
Jul 22, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	51 min
Jul 22, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	49 min
Jul 22, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Yell	52 min
Jul 22, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski	47 min
Jul 22, 3:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	3 hr
Jul 22, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Woodruff	45 min
Jul 22, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe	45 min
Jul 22, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	32 min
Jul 22, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson	30 min
Jul 22, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Pope	39 min
Jul 22, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Newton, Pope	32 min
Jul 22, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Perry	46 min
Jul 22, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Faulkner, Pulaski	45 min
Jul 22, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski	38 min
Jul 22, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren	30 min
Jul 22, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lonoke, Pulaski	44 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.