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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Little Rock, AR

August 12, 2020Polk County, Scott County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2020, 10:28 AM CDT for Polk County, Scott County, Arkansas. It was in force for 117 min. 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 12, 2020, 10:28 AM CDT (15:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2020, 12:25 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

Counties Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 247 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2020-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 346 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2020-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -79 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
346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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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 Aug 11, 2:31 PM CDT, 19 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:31 PM CDT, 19 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 2:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPolk52 min
Aug 12, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKMontgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott7 hr
Aug 12, 5:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCalhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Hot Spring and 3 more3 hr
Aug 12, 7:34 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKCalhoun, Ouachita116 min
Aug 12, 12:39 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningLZKPolk, Scott3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2020Every flash flood warning in 2020

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.