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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 2014, 4:47 PM CDT for Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Lincoln 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
- Sep 18, 2014, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Arkansas County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 Sep 17, 6:47 PM CDT, 22 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 6:47 PM CDT, 22 hours before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 41 min |
| Sep 17, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 9:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 29 min |
| Sep 17, 9:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 25 min |
| Sep 17, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 41 min |
| Sep 18, 3:40 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Marion | 5 hr |
| Sep 18, 1:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleveland | 31 min |
| Sep 18, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha | 28 min |
| Sep 18, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Arkansas | 30 min |
| Sep 18, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Desha | 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.