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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT for Boone County, Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 30, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2014, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Boone County, AR, Marion County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Aug 30, 2:47 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 2:47 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 4:51 AM CDT, 10 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 451 AM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-311000- 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- 451 AM CDT SAT AUG 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE FORECAST AREA TODAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHEAST. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STRONG STORMS COULD OCCUR AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD RESULT IN MORE THAN HALF AN INCH OF RAIN IN SOME AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SOME RAINFALL MAY LINGER INTO SUNDAY IN THE SOUTHEAST...BUT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE MORE ISOLATED IN NATURE. NO SEVER WEATHER IS EXPECTED ON SUNDAY. NEXT WEEK A DRYING AND SLIGHT WARMING TREND IS EXPECTED AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.
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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.