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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 5, 2022Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Lincoln County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 2022, 3:02 PM CDT for Arkansas County, Jefferson County, Lincoln County, 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 5, 2022, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Arkansas County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lincoln County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 269 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: 453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -336 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 5, 3:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Stone	25 min
May 5, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter	14 min
May 5, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Newton	35 min
May 5, 4:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	39 min
May 5, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Conway, Perry	5 days
May 5, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Pope, Yell	54 hr
May 5, 9:08 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Faulkner, Perry	29 hr
May 5, 9:08 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Jefferson, Lincoln	29 hr
May 5, 9:14 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln	30 hr
May 5, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant	37 min
May 5, 11:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Hot Spring	19 hr
May 5, 11:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	21 days
May 5, 11:29 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Saline	19 hr
May 5, 11:33 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Independence, Jackson	23 hr
May 5, 11:35 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	4 hr
May 5, 11:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Dallas, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Montgomery and 2 more	8 hr
May 5, 11:37 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	9 hr
May 5, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Grant, Jefferson	35 min
May 5, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski	41 min
May 5, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Cleveland, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln	68 min
May 5, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe	67 min
May 5, 12:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Jefferson	3 hr
May 5, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Yell	34 min
May 5, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Clark	31 min
May 5, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Monroe	66 min
May 5, 1:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Dallas, Grant	6 hr
May 5, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	27 min
May 5, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln	42 min
May 5, 2:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Yell	59 hr
May 5, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Monroe	33 min
May 5, 2:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Lincoln	5 hr
May 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Lincoln	32 min
May 5, 3:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Jefferson	4 hr
May 5, 3:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	14 hr
May 5, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Drew	34 min
May 5, 4:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln, Monroe	4 hr
May 5, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Drew	39 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.