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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 2014, 6:04 PM CDT for Jackson County, White County, Woodruff 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2014, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Jackson County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 461 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
234 WGUS54 KLZK 122304 FFWLZK ARC067-145-147-130200- /O.NEW.KLZK.FF.W.0021.140612T2304Z-140613T0200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 604 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN WHITE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS... NORTHERN WOODRUFF COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 604 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NARROW BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM DENMARK TO BRADFORD AND BEEDEVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN MUCH OF THE WARNING AREA. GIVEN ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY TO OCCUR. WHILE PRECIPITATION WILL TAPER OFF DURING THE WARNING PERIOD...IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME FOR ANY HIGH WATER TO RUNOFF. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... TUPELO... MCFADDEN... ALGOA... WELDON... SHOFFNER... POSSUM GRAPE... OLYPHANT... INGLESIDE... HEFFINGTON... BRADFORD... BLACKVILLE... BEEDEVILLE... BALCH... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN! && LAT...LON 3535 9105 3539 9157 3552 9158 3554 9104 $$ 46
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 11:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 12:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton, Sharp | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 2:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson, Woodruff | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson, White, Woodruff | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleveland | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland, Drew | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Drew | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Woodruff | 30 min |
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.