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Flash Flood Warning 92, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2015, 5:39 PM CDT for Baxter County, Marion County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 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 21, 2015, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2015, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baxter County, AR, Marion County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 21, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 20, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Baxter | 51 min |
| Jul 20, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Fulton | 26 min |
| Jul 20, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Fulton | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard, Sharp | 31 min |
| Jul 20, 9:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Stone | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Jackson | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 10:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Conway | 39 min |
| Jul 20, 10:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Faulkner | 53 min |
| Jul 20, 11:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pope | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 12:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Perry | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Grant | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 6:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Searcy | 40 min |
| Jul 21, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Izard | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Independence | 49 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.