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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 26, 20134 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2013, 6:09 PM CDT for 4 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
Jul 26, 2013, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2013, 9:00 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, Scott County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 237 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2013-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1878 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2013-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1878 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.6

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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 26, 2:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 5:00 AM CDT, 13 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
500 AM CDT FRI JUL 26 2013

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-271000-
ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-
CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-
INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE-
MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-
PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE-
WOODRUFF-YELL-
500 AM CDT FRI JUL 26 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A LARGE OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...ACROSS KANSAS AND
OKLAHOMA...WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS LATER THIS MORNING. THE
ACTIVITY WILL EVENTUALLY AFFECT THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE LATER
TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME STRONG AND SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN
THREATS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...RESULTING IN
A THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. AS A RESULT...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ABOUT THE WESTERN HALF OF ARKANSAS TODAY AND
THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE AFOREMENTIONED STORM SYSTEM WILL SHIFT EAST OF ARKANSAS ON
SATURDAY...WITH RAINFALL DIMINISHING. SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER AIR
WILL FILTER INTO THE NATURAL STATE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND.

THE NEXT SIGNIFICANT CHANCE OF RAINFALL WILL RETURN TO THE MID SOUTH
MONDAY AND TUESDAY...AS ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM
THE PLAINS STATES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND
CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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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.