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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 3, 20225 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 2022, 12:59 AM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 113 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
May 3, 2022, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2022, 2:52 AM CDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Searcy County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2022-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2022-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 214 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
991 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
355 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 10:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKJohnson, Newton43 min
May 2, 10:11 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKFulton, Sharp12 hr
May 2, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Marion47 min
May 2, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Johnson, Logan, Newton, Pope49 min
May 2, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell43 min
May 2, 11:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKBaxter, Marion31 min
May 2, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone, Johnson, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy and 1 more47 min
May 2, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKLogan, Scott, Yell47 min
May 2, 11:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKLogan, Pope42 min
May 2, 11:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMontgomery, Polk23 min
May 3, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Searcy, Stone34 min
May 3, 12:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKMontgomery, Pike39 min
May 3, 12:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKPerry, Yell32 min
May 3, 12:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleburne, Stone, Van Buren27 min
May 3, 12:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKConway, Faulkner, Perry, Saline50 min
May 3, 12:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKFulton, Izard27 min
May 3, 12:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLZKCleburne, Independence, Stone31 min
May 3, 6:16 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLZKLawrence, Randolph34 hr
May 3, 6:20 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLZKRandolph16 hr
May 3, 10:08 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLZKIndependence, Jackson11 hr
May 3, 10:11 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLZKJackson, Woodruff11 hr

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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.