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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 10, 1995Benton County, Carroll County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1995, 7:21 AM CDT for Benton County, Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1995, 7:21 AM CDT (12:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1995, 10:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 333 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-06-10Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -98 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 101222
FFWTUL
ARC007-015-101530-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
721 AM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...BENTON COUNTY...CARROLL COUNTY
 
AT 720 AM...RADAR ESITMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN
BENTON COUNTY AND 1 TO 2 INCHES IN CARROLL COUNTY. ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THESE AREAS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS
AND MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER 1 INCH OF RAIN.
 
FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON SEVERAL HIGHWAYS IN NORTHERN BENTON AND
NORTHERN CARROLL COUNTIES.
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS LIKELY OR HAS BEEN
REPORTED.  STAY ALERT AND WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER.
REMEMBER...IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO THE
NEAREST STREAM...CREEK OR RIVER WHICH CAN BECOME A KILLER DURING
PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN.
 
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR
VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.  THE WATER
MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.  IF YOUR
VEHICLE GETS CAUGHT IN RISING WATER...ABANDONED IT QUICKLY.  THEN
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAWashington3 hr
Jun 10, 9:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAMadison3 hr
Jun 10, 10:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACarroll2 hr
Jun 10, 12:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAWashington4 hr
Jun 10, 2:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSABenton, Carroll, Madison3 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.