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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 9, 20185 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2018, 4:18 AM CDT for 5 counties in 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
Aug 9, 2018, 4:18 AM CDT (09:18 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2018, 7:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Calhoun County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Drew County, AR, Lincoln County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 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

Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2018-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 381 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2018-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
381 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 8:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKSharp35 min
Aug 8, 8:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKFulton, Izard, Sharp52 min
Aug 9, 8:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKClark, Montgomery, Pike3 hr
Aug 9, 4:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBaxter37 min
Aug 9, 6:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleburne51 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2018Every flash flood warning in 2018

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.