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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Little Rock, AR
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.
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 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.
- 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
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 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. 55
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 8, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski, Saline | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Prairie | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe, Prairie | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 22 min |
| Jun 9, 7:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Yell | 47 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Saline | 47 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Clark | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita and 1 more | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Ouachita | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 12:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleveland, Grant, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 12:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Bradley, Desha, Drew | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Prairie, White, Woodruff | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Woodruff | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 3:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Perry | 6 days |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2014Every flash flood warning in 2014
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.