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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Little Rock, AR

May 14, 2022Stone County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2022, 6:38 PM CDT for Stone County, Arkansas. It was in force for 83 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 14, 2022, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2022, 8:01 PM CDT
In force: 83 min
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Stone County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 1418 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1229 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 13, 6:43 PM CDT, 23 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:43 PM CDT, 23 hours 55 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 13, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Stone	37 min
May 13, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Sharp	29 min
May 13, 9:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Independence	37 min
May 13, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Izard, Searcy, Stone	47 min
May 13, 10:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Stone	5 hr
May 13, 10:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard	3 hr
May 13, 10:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Marion, Searcy	3 hr
May 13, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Searcy	35 min
May 13, 11:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	Fulton, Sharp	12 hr
May 14, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren and 1 more	55 min
May 14, 1:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Baxter, Stone	3 hr
May 14, 5:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski	13 min
May 14, 9:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Clark	31 min
May 14, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Newton	43 min
May 14, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	32 min
May 14, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Stone	40 min
May 14, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Newton	35 min
May 14, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Izard, Stone	28 min
May 14, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Boone, Newton	110 min
May 14, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Stone	36 min
May 14, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	26 min
May 14, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Searcy, Stone, Van Buren	17 min
May 14, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LZK	Boone	29 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.