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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 23, 2013Jackson County, Woodruff County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 2013, 4:55 AM CDT for Jackson County, Woodruff County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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: Jul 23, 2013, 4:55 AM CDT (09:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Jackson County, AR, Woodruff County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 2596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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 23, 3:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 3:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
335 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

ARZ025-230920-
JACKSON AR-
335 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY UNTIL 415
AM CDT...

AT 332 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TUPELO...OR 12 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF NEWPORT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TUPELO...             MCFADDEN...           ALGOA...
  WELDON...             SHOFFNER...           OLYPHANT...
  INGLESIDE...          ERWIN...              BLACKVILLE...
  BEEDEVILLE...         BALCH...              AMAGON...

&&

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THE
STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 3539 9125 3544 9125 3545 9132 3544 9135
      3544 9142 3553 9142 3553 9137 3560 9137
      3560 9103 3537 9104
TIME...MOT...LOC 0835Z 274DEG 13KT 3549 9132

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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 22, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Bradley	43 min
Jul 23, 3:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jackson	45 min
Jul 23, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pulaski	46 min
Jul 23, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Grant, Pulaski, Saline	45 min
Jul 23, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	39 min
Jul 23, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	45 min
Jul 23, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Garland, Saline	44 min
Jul 23, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	46 min
Jul 23, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Montgomery, Perry and 2 more	39 min
Jul 23, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Van Buren	44 min
Jul 23, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Marion	51 min
Jul 23, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Saline	46 min
Jul 23, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Conway, Van Buren	42 min
Jul 23, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren	52 min
Jul 23, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Perry	32 min
Jul 23, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Stone, Van Buren	25 min
Jul 23, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	33 min
Jul 23, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring	47 min
Jul 23, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	44 min
Jul 23, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson	52 min
Jul 23, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry, Yell	36 min
Jul 23, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Pope, Van Buren	31 min
Jul 23, 3:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring	2 hr
Jul 23, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Stone	46 min
Jul 23, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Stone	49 min
Jul 23, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard, Sharp, Stone	39 min
Jul 23, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Stone	38 min
Jul 23, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Van Buren	23 min
Jul 23, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline	51 min
Jul 23, 4:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	105 min
Jul 23, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry, Pope	25 min
Jul 23, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas	39 min
Jul 23, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry, Pope, Saline, Yell	48 min
Jul 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Scott, Yell	30 min
Jul 23, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	24 min
Jul 23, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry	24 min
Jul 23, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Stone	51 min
Jul 23, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline	29 min
Jul 23, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	52 min
Jul 23, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Scott, Yell	34 min
Jul 23, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Perry, Saline, Yell	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Sharp	33 min
Jul 23, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, Saline	48 min
Jul 23, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry, Pope, Yell	46 min
Jul 23, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Pike	50 min
Jul 23, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Marion	43 min
Jul 23, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	31 min
Jul 23, 5:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Marion	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery, Yell	3 hr
Jul 23, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark, Pike	47 min
Jul 23, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Yell	41 min
Jul 23, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	34 min

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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.