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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 2014, 12:04 AM 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
- May 9, 2014, 12:04 AM CDT (05:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Montgomery County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Yell County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 May 8, 7:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 7:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 8, 6:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
631 PM CDT THU MAY 08 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0623 PM FLASH FLOOD MENA 34.58N 94.24W
05/08/2014 POLK AR EMERGENCY MNGR
ONE SWIFT WATER RESCUE HAS BEEN PERFORMED AND THE CAR
REMAINS IN THE CREEK. SEVERE FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED
ON SOME ROADS AROUND MENA.
&&
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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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| May 8, 8:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Pope, Scott and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 8, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Pope, Van Buren, Yell | 39 min |
| May 8, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 47 min |
| May 8, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Van Buren | 45 min |
| May 9, 9:24 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 46 hr |
| May 9, 2:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleburne | 27 min |
| May 9, 3:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 30 min |
| May 9, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 18 min |
| May 9, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 23 min |
| May 9, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ouachita | 39 min |
| May 9, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pike | 30 min |
| May 9, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pike | 32 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.