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Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2015, 6:12 PM CDT for Pulaski County, Saline 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 15, 2015, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2015, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1920 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 Jul 15, 3:12 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:12 PM CDT, 3 hours before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 PM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-161000- 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 PM CDT WED JUL 15 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE OVER 100 DEGREES STATEWIDE...WITH A HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT. WITH THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON TO EVENING HOURS. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE SEEN. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST...WITH HEAT ADVISORIES CONTINUING AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE CONVECTION. HOWEVER...ALL REPORTS ARE APPRECIATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 58/59
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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2:50 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | LZK | Pike | 64 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 34 min |
| Jul 15, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White | 31 min |
| Jul 15, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 3:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Prairie, White | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 37 min |
| Jul 15, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White | 43 min |
| Jul 15, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 25 min |
| Jul 15, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 34 min |
| Jul 15, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Jul 15, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 56 min |
| Jul 15, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, White | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 4:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Faulkner, White | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jefferson, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion | 44 min |
| Jul 15, 5:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Lonoke, Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski | 29 min |
| Jul 15, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | White | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Cleburne, Izard, Stone | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Stone | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Saline | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Marion | 46 min |
| Jul 15, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Cleburne, Independence, Izard, Stone | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Saline | 37 min |
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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.