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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2014, 7:11 PM CDT for 6 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 109 min. 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 8, 2014, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 109 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Conway County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 8, 6:48 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 6:48 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 5:00 AM CDT, 14 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-091000- 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 TUE JUL 8 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF ARKANSAS THIS MORNING WILL WEAKEN. THERE WILL BE A LULL INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS...AND THEN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP IN THE NORTH. THE NEW STORMS WILL LIKELY BUILD SLOWLY TOWARD CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES INTO THE REGION FROM MISSOURI. SOME STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL OR LARGER WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERNS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL DROP LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...WITH SOME SPOTS PICKING UP MORE THAN AN INCH OF PRECIPITATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE AFOREMENTIONED FRONT WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS ON WEDNESDAY...WITH COOLER AIR TO FOLLOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. FARTHER SOUTH...HIT AND MISS THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST SURROUNDING THE FRONT. AGAIN...A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. MORE STORMS SHOULD POP UP ON THURSDAY...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. ON FRIDAY...ANY STORMS WILL BECOME MORE SPOTTY AS THE FRONT LIFTS TO THE NORTH. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST THIS WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 100 DEGREES IN ALL BUT THE OZARK MOUNTAINS OF THE NORTHWEST. IT APPEARS THE HEAT WILL BE TEMPORARY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL WEAKEN EARLY NEXT WEEK...AND THAT WILL ALLOW ANOTHER COLD FRONT TO VISIT FROM THE NORTH. COOLER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED BEHIND THE FRONT... WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES BEYOND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SEVERE WEATHER BECOMES MORE LIKELY. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 46
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 337 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 ARZ003-012-082105- BOONE AR-NEWTON AR- 337 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN BOONE AND NORTHEASTERN NEWTON COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT... AT 333 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF HARRISON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HARRISON... VALLEY SPRINGS... OLVEY... CAPPS... GAITHER... BELLEFONTE... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN! LAT...LON 3623 9291 3604 9302 3616 9327 3630 9315 TIME...MOT...LOC 2037Z 296DEG 7KT 3620 9313 226
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
350 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014
ARZ012-082115-
NEWTON AR-
350 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY UNTIL
415 PM CDT...
AT 348 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOST VALLEY SP...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LOST VALLEY SP... JASPER...
UPPER BUFFALO WILDERNESS AREA... SWAIN...
PONCA... PARTHENON... MT SHERMAN...
MOSSVILLE... LOW GAP... COMPTON...
BOXLEY...
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN!
LAT...LON 3599 9314 3582 9335 3596 9348 3600 9345
3607 9345 3608 9348 3608 9349 3610 9349
3613 9344 3613 9335
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 315DEG 14KT 3606 9341
226Local storm report, Jul 8, 5:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Faulkner | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Yell | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, White | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Perry, Yell | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 8:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 8:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Woodruff | 14 min |
| Jul 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 9:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Hot Spring | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 10:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Polk | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 9:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk | 2 hr |
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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.