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Flash Flood Warning 138, NWS Little Rock, AR

December 28, 2015Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Dec 28, 2015, 7:47 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: Dec 28, 2015, 7:47 AM CST (13:47 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2015, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Unknown

County Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 280 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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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 28, 6:05 AM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 6:05 AM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 28, 5:00 AM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 28, 3:10 AM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
310 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015

ARZ044>047-056-057-064-065-069-281000-
ARKANSAS AR-JEFFERSON AR-PRAIRIE AR-MONROE AR-PULASKI AR-LONOKE AR-
DESHA AR-LINCOLN AR-DREW AR-
310 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL MONROE...ARKANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI...SOUTHEASTERN LONOKE...NORTHWESTERN DESHA...
CENTRAL JEFFERSON...NORTHEASTERN DREW...EASTERN LINCOLN AND SOUTHERN
PRAIRIE COUNTIES UNTIL 400 AM CST...

AT 310 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR ENGLAND TO NEAR
ALTHEIMER TO NEAR LITTLE BAYOU METO PARK TO DUMAS...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
STUTTGART...DUMAS...ENGLAND...CARLISLE...ALTHEIMER...GOULD...GILLETT...
HUMPHREY...MITCHELLVILLE...HUMNOKE...ALMYRA...KEO...ST. CHARLES...WATSON...
ULM...LITTLE BAYOU METO PARK...PARKERS CORNER...MERRISACH LAKE...DOUGLAS
AND STUTTGART MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3398 9109 3396 9109 3395 9106 3378 9158
      3407 9162 3427 9183 3451 9215 3480 9171
      3453 9131 3431 9108 3422 9106 3420 9109
      3415 9108 3412 9111 3412 9105 3400 9103
TIME...MOT...LOC 0910Z 239DEG 32KT 3450 9202 3431 9176 3411 9155 3389
9150

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Local storm report, Dec 28, 3:16 AM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
316 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0254 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST PINE BLUFF              34.21N 92.02W
12/28/2015  M58.00 MPH       JEFFERSON          AR   ASOS

            WIND GUST TO 58 MPH MEASURED AT THE PINE BLUFF AIRPORT.

&&

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Special weather statement, Dec 28, 3:19 AM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
319 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015

ARZ065-280945-
DESHA AR-
319 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN DESHA COUNTY UNTIL 345
AM CST...

AT 319 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR OMEGA TO NEAR ROHWER
TO NEAR DERMOTT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROHWER...ARKANSAS CITY...WATSON...KELSO...MCGEHEE...JERSEY POINT...LUCCA
LANDING...MCARTHUR...HALLEY AND MASONVILLE.

LAT...LON 3377 9115 3371 9113 3372 9106 3368 9103
      3366 9109 3371 9116 3370 9122 3367 9123
      3360 9113 3356 9124 3353 9125 3353 9135
      3357 9143 3370 9140 3383 9142 3396 9108
      3393 9101 3384 9107 3378 9099
TIME...MOT...LOC 0919Z 245DEG 34KT 3383 9138 3373 9134 3356 9138

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Special weather statement, Dec 28, 3:43 AM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 28, 3:50 AM CST, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 28, 5:59 AM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 27, 6:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Logan and 5 more	9 hr
Dec 27, 6:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln	28 min
Dec 27, 7:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleveland	32 min
Dec 27, 7:54 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Prairie and 5 more	6 hr
Dec 27, 10:18 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	6 hr
Dec 27, 11:34 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland and 9 more	6 hr
Dec 28, 12:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	8 hr
Dec 28, 1:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Sharp, Stone	6 hr
Dec 28, 1:39 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln and 3 more	4 hr
Dec 28, 1:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Prairie and 5 more	5 hr
Dec 28, 2:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	50 min
Dec 28, 2:49 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Jefferson, Lincoln	26 min
Dec 28, 3:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Arkansas	50 min
Dec 28, 3:12 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Marion and 4 more	24 hr
Dec 28, 3:19 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	26 min
Dec 28, 3:38 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 28 more	14 hr
Dec 28, 3:43 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Monroe	32 min
Dec 28, 3:47 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Logan, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott, Yell	24 hr
Dec 28, 4:17 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	12 hr
Dec 28, 5:05 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, Garland and 9 more	24 hr
Dec 28, 5:13 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Drew, Jefferson, Lincoln and 3 more	12 hr
Dec 28, 6:21 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Cleburne, Faulkner, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Prairie and 5 more	12 hr
Dec 28, 6:23 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Sharp, Stone	12 hr
Dec 28, 4:55 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Drew and 8 more	12 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2015 Every flash flood warning in 2015

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.