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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Little Rock, AR

January 23, 2024Hot Spring County, Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2024, 3:25 PM CST for Hot Spring County, Arkansas. It was in force for 10 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
Jan 23, 2024, 3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 2024, 1:15 AM CST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Little Rock, AR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Hot Spring County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 2024-01-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 108 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 2024-01-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 1:41 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLZKBaxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner and 31 more10 hr
Jan 23, 2:18 AM CSTFlood WatchLZKArkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 27 more55 hr
Jan 23, 9:45 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningLZKBradley, Calhoun, Union31 days
Jan 23, 9:47 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningLZKClark, Nevada, Ouachita58 hr
Jan 23, 12:04 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLZKArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 36 more24 hr

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.