Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2015
Flash Flood Warning 126, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Dec 27, 2015, 1:08 PM CST for 6 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 15 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
- Dec 27, 2015, 1:08 PM CST (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2015, 4:30 AM CST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Logan County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Yell County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 Dec 27, 11:51 AM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 11:51 AM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 27, 12:30 PM CST, 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1230 PM CST SUN DEC 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- 1230 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT HAS MOVED INTO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AT THIS TIME WITH WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING. HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MONDAY MORNING OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE STATE. SEVERAL INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED TO FALL ON GROUND THAT IS ALREADY SATURATED AND WITH NO WHERE FOR THE WATER TO RUN OFF TO...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS OF RAIN STILL LOOK TO BE OVER THE OUACHITA AND OZARK MOUNTAIN REGIONS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE LESS OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE STATE BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN NOT BE RULED OUT HERE EITHER. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT OVER MUCH OF THE STATE THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CANNOT BE DISCOUNTED. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE SOUTH WHERE A SLIGHT RISK EXISTS. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...BUT A FEW TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AN UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE IS FORECAST TO TRACK ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY...BRINGING ONE LAST ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION. RIVER FLOODING WILL ALSO BE AN INCREASING CONCERN INTO THE COMING WEEK. PLEASE MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE COMING DAYS. THIS IS ESPECIALLY THE CASE THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND WITH MANY PEOPLE TRAVELING ACROSS ARKANSAS WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 51
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 27, 10:36 AM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1036 AM CST SUN DEC 27 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1025 AM FLASH FLOOD 2 NE BLUE BALL 34.97N 93.68W
12/27/2015 YELL AR EMERGENCY MNGR
SWIFT WATER RESCUE OF 2 INDIVIDUALS NEAR THE INTERSECTION
OF HIGHWAY 80 AND FOREST ROAD 18.
&&
226The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 3:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 26 min |
| Dec 27, 4:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk, Scott | 32 min |
| Dec 27, 8:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Logan, Montgomery, Scott, Yell | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 10:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Logan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 11:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Polk | 42 min |
| Dec 27, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Pike | 41 min |
| Dec 27, 2:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:17 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Calhoun | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 3:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Dallas, Ouachita | 52 min |
| Dec 27, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 23 min |
| Dec 27, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 47 min |
| Dec 27, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Dallas | 45 min |
| Dec 27, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark, Pike | 52 min |
| Dec 27, 4:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Bradley | 49 min |
| Dec 27, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas | 29 min |
| Dec 27, 5:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Bradley, Cleveland | 48 min |
| Dec 27, 5:42 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Hot Spring, Montgomery and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 5:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Faulkner, Grant, Hot Spring and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 5:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Lincoln | 36 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.