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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2020, 10:24 PM CDT for Logan County, Polk County, Scott 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
- May 26, 2020, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2020, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Logan County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
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 26, 7:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 7:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 26, 6:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 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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| May 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, Lawrence | 118 min |
| May 26, 9:49 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Conway, Perry | 13 hr |
| May 27, 8:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Woodruff | 3 hr |
| May 27, 9:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, Woodruff | 7 days |
| May 27, 10:25 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Conway, Perry | 10 hr |
| May 27, 10:33 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 10 hr |
| May 27, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Pope, Yell | 34 min |
| May 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Garland | 47 min |
| May 27, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Johnson | 43 min |
| May 27, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pope | 48 min |
| May 27, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Marion | 49 min |
| May 27, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Conway | 36 min |
| May 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone | 63 min |
| May 27, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Saline | 47 min |
| May 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Marion | 43 min |
| May 27, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Monroe | 51 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.