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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Little Rock, AR

June 8, 2014Scott County, Yell County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2014, 7:04 PM CDT for Scott County, Yell 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 8, 2014, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2014, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Scott County, AR, Yell County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 273 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 00:00Z on 2014-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2014-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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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 Jun 8, 2:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 2:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
212 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2014

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-091015-
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-
212 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING...ACROSS AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE
40.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND
INTENSITY...AS THE ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZED DUE TO SOLAR HEATING.
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. IN
ADDITION...LARGE HAIL...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...WILL BE POSSIBLE
THROUGH EARLY EVENING...ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN ARKANSAS.

ALSO...STORM THAT FORM THIS AFTERNOON...AS WELL AS OVERNIGHT...WILL
BE EFFICIENT RAINFALL PRODUCERS. RAINFALL MAY BECOME EXCESSIVE WITH
SOME STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

UNSETTLED WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE FIRST HALF
OF THE WEEK. ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH EACH DAY.

THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG AND SEVERE STORMS WILL EXIST...MAINLY FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL MAY ALSO BE OF SOME CONCERN.
THE MOST LIKELY TIME WOULD BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
HOURS. HOWEVER...SOME LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING SEVERE STORMS
COULD OCCUR AS WELL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO REMAIN A
CONCERN ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 8:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPulaski, Saline44 min
Jun 8, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPulaski, Saline40 min
Jun 8, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPulaski, Saline23 min
Jun 8, 9:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPrairie45 min
Jun 8, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKGrant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski36 min
Jun 8, 10:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMonroe, Prairie58 min
Jun 8, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie, Woodruff49 min
Jun 8, 10:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJefferson43 min
Jun 8, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas45 min
Jun 8, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe22 min
Jun 9, 7:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKYell47 hr
Jun 9, 9:45 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKSaline47 hr
Jun 9, 11:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKClark43 min
Jun 9, 11:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKClark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita and 1 more40 min
Jun 9, 11:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKCalhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita50 min
Jun 9, 12:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleveland, Grant, Jefferson46 min
Jun 9, 12:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCleveland, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln3 hr
Jun 9, 1:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKBradley, Desha, Drew3 hr
Jun 9, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff40 min
Jun 9, 1:52 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPrairie, White, Woodruff38 min
Jun 9, 2:21 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKWoodruff24 min
Jun 9, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKMonroe, Woodruff32 min
Jun 9, 2:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKWoodruff26 min
Jun 9, 3:20 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKPerry6 days

Nearby

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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.