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Flash Flood Warning 114, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Nov 28, 2015, 3:21 AM CST for Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 6 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
- Nov 28, 2015, 3:21 AM CST (09:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 28, 2015, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Hot Spring County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:20 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Nov 27, 11:56 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 27, 11:56 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 27, 5:00 AM CST, 22 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CST FRI NOV 27 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-281100- BOONE-MARION-BAXTER-FULTON-SHARP-NEWTON-SEARCY-STONE-IZARD- INDEPENDENCE-JOHNSON-POPE-VAN BUREN-CLEBURNE-JACKSON-LOGAN-CONWAY- FAULKNER-WHITE-WOODRUFF-SCOTT-YELL-PERRY-POLK-MONTGOMERY-GARLAND- SALINE-PULASKI-LONOKE-PRAIRIE-MONROE-PIKE-CLARK-HOT SPRING-GRANT- JEFFERSON-ARKANSAS-DALLAS-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-DESHA-OUACHITA-CALHOUN- BRADLEY-DREW- 500 AM CST THU NOV 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES TO DEVELOP OVER THE STATE AS A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT INTERACTS WITH SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF BOTH PACIFIC AND GULF OF MEXICO MOISTURE. PRECIPITATION WILL BECOME HEAVIER AND MORE WIDESPREAD WITH TIME AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES SLOWLY THROUGH THE STATE...MAKING VERY LITTLE HEAD WAY. AS A RESULT SEVERAL INCHES OF PRECIPITATION ARE EXPECTED ACROSS ACROSS MAINLY CENTRAL AND WESTERN ARKANSAS WITH THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS EXPECTED AFTER DARK. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT AT THIS TIME FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE STATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO CRAWL THROUGH THE STATE...BEFORE FINALLY REACHING THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF ARKANSAS BY SUNDAY MORNING. PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE PRECIPITATION BEGINS TO TAPER OFF SOMEWHAT ON SUNDAY. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. BY THE TIME THE STORM SYSTEM ENDS...AS MUCH AS FIVE TO SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE. AREAS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS INCLUDING THE OUACHITA MOUNTAINS COULD SEE IN EXCESS OF EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN. MUCH OF THE AREA RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN FALL LAST WEEK. VEGETATION CONTINUES TO BECOME DORMANT WITH FALLEN LEAVES CLOGGING STORM DRAINS. AS A RESULT...INCREASED RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL LIKELY PRODUCE AREAS OF FLOODING. IN ADDITION TO THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT...AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS IN THE LOWER ARKANSAS...BUFFALO...BLACK...SPRING...AND WHITE RIVER SYSTEM WILL BE THE MOST THREATENED WITH MINOR TO MODERATE FLOODING POSSIBLE. IF YOUR HOLIDAY PLANS INVOLVE TRAVEL ACROSS THE STATE...PLEASE BE AWARE THAT AREA ROADS MAY BECOME COVERED IN WATER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT NEEDED AT THIS TIME. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 56
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 7:37 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 36 hr |
| Nov 27, 7:37 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 36 hr |
| Nov 27, 7:40 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Clark, Nevada, Ouachita | 36 hr |
| Nov 27, 7:41 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Saline | 36 hr |
| Nov 28, 3:58 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring | 4 days |
| Nov 28, 10:20 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 6 hr |
| Nov 28, 11:00 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Saline | 71 hr |
| Nov 28, 11:26 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | White | 43 hr |
| Nov 28, 11:31 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | Garland, Saline | 3 hr |
| Nov 28, 12:13 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 10 days |
| Nov 28, 12:13 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Bradley, Calhoun, Union | 26 days |
| Nov 28, 12:13 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Nevada, Ouachita | 72 hr |
| Nov 28, 4:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Grant, Saline | 3 hr |
| Nov 28, 4:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 3 hr |
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.