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Flash Flood Warning 75, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 5, 2015Desha County, Drew County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2015, 10:04 AM CDT for Desha County, Drew County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 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: Jul 5, 2015, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 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

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 5, 6:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 6:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 8:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
848 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 2015

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-061000-
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-
848 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AND
TONIGHT OVER MAINLY CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. AN ISOLATED
STRONG STORM MAY BE SEEN...BUT OVERALL COVERAGE AND POTENTIAL IS
EXPECTED TO REMAIN LOW. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY
STORM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL PERSIST OVER THE REGION THROUGH THE
EARLY PART OF THE COMING WEEK...AS A FEW MORE UPPER LEVEL
IMPULSES CROSS ARKANSAS. THIS WILL RESULT IN CONTINUING CHANCES
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN OVER
THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. BY MID WEEK...UPPER LEVEL HIGH
PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO BUILD IN FROM THE SOUTHEAST...AND RAIN
CHANCES WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE ACROSS ARKANSAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND
CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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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
Jul 5, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew, Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 5, 2:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy	3 hr
Jul 5, 2:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Bradley, Calhoun, Ouachita	3 hr
Jul 5, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Scott	29 min
Jul 5, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	48 min
Jul 5, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Logan	48 min
Jul 5, 4:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan	3 hr
Jul 5, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan	27 min
Jul 5, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson	29 min
Jul 5, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Saline	48 min
Jul 5, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Pope	31 min
Jul 5, 5:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton, Searcy	3 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.