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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2019, 12:27 PM CDT for Garland County, Hot Spring County, Saline County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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
- May 2, 2019, 12:27 PM CDT (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2019, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Garland County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Saline County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 May 2, 6:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 6:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 4:49 AM CDT, 7 hours 38 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Little Rock AR 449 AM CDT Thu May 2 2019 ARZ003>008-012>017-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-031000- Boone-Marion-Baxter-Fulton-Sharp-Randolph-Newton-Searcy-Stone- Izard-Independence-Lawrence-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- 449 AM CDT Thu May 2 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a Large Part of Arkansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight A complex of showers and thunderstorms will continue to move through the state this morning into the early afternoon hours. The potential exists for heavy rainfall leading to isolated flash flooding. One to two inches of rain is expected today. Organized severe weather is not expected. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday Unsettled weather will continue Friday and Saturday, as a front meanders over Arkansas. Good chances for showers and thunderstorms will remain in the forecast. Localized flash flooding will be a concern, but organized severe weather is not expected. The front will move out of the area later in the weekend. A return to an unsettled weather pattern will occur by the middle of next week. .Spotter Information Statement... Spotter activation will not be needed. && Visit NWS Little Rock on the web. Go to https://weather.gov/lzk.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Scott | 35 min |
| May 1, 8:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Logan | 37 min |
| May 1, 9:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Polk | 64 min |
| May 1, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Logan, Polk, Scott | 58 min |
| May 1, 10:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Johnson | 46 min |
| May 1, 11:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Montgomery | 31 min |
| May 1, 11:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Johnson | 29 min |
| May 2, 10:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Randolph | 35 hr |
| May 2, 10:34 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Prairie, White, Woodruff | 24 days |
| May 2, 12:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Pulaski | 3 hr |
| May 2, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski | 38 min |
| May 2, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski | 28 min |
| May 2, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 30 min |
| May 2, 1:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 5 hr |
| May 2, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White | 37 min |
| May 2, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke, White | 29 min |
| May 2, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, White | 3 hr |
| May 2, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jackson, Lawrence | 39 min |
| May 2, 2:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, Prairie, White, Woodruff | 3 hr |
| May 2, 3:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 115 min |
| May 2, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jackson | 43 min |
| May 2, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Woodruff | 3 hr |
| May 2, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jackson | 24 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.