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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 9, 20195 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 2019, 2:22 AM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 5 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 9, 2019, 2:22 AM CDT (07:22 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2019, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

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

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1331 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 407 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 530 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 May 9, 12:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 12:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 10:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 8:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
840 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0650 PM     FLASH FLOOD      COY                     34.54N 91.87W
05/08/2019                   LONOKE             AR   PUBLIC

            WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING REPORTED IN COY.

&&

JGOUDS

Local storm report, May 8, 8:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
851 PM CDT WED MAY 08 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CHAMBERSVILLE           33.75N  92.43W
05/08/2019                   CALHOUN            AR   SOCIAL MEDIA

            A FEW TREES REPORTED DOWN IN THE AREA.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LZK1900045

JHOOD

Local storm report, May 8, 8:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
858 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0619 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PINE BLUFF              34.21N 92.02W
05/08/2019                   JEFFERSON          AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            *** 4 INJ *** APARTMENT COMPLEX DAMAGED IN PINE BLUFF.
            THE SIDE OF A BRICK WALL COLLAPSED ALONG WITH ROOF
            DAMAGE.

&&

JHOOD

Special weather statement, May 9, 1:29 AM CDT, 53 minutes before

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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
May 8, 7:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln and 5 more	3 hr
May 8, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Monroe, Prairie	40 min
May 8, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie	26 min
May 8, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, White, Woodruff	12 min
May 8, 10:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	4 days
May 8, 11:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Nevada, Ouachita	25 hr
May 9, 12:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	3 hr
May 9, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	31 min
May 9, 2:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Saline	18 hr
May 9, 3:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Desha	33 min
May 9, 4:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Drew, Lincoln	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2019 Every flash flood warning in 2019

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.