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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 10, 1995Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1995, 12:45 PM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 1995, 12:45 PM CDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 359 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: 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 101747
FFWTUL
ARC143-102145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1245 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. RAIN IS OCCURRING ON SATURATED GROUND AND WILL
QUICKLY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IF HEAVY RAINFALL OR AN EXTENDED PERIOD
OF MODERATE RAIN OCCURS. RADAR INDICATES THE GREATEST THREAT FOR FLASH
FLOODING WILL BE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF WASHINGTON
COUNTY AROUND WEST FORK AND FAYETTEVILLE.
 
 
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.

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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 10, 10:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 10:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1005 AM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995

12Z SFC ANALYS INDCTS CDFNT HAS ENTERED XTRM NWRN PTNS OF FA.  DEW
POINTS HV FALLEN INTO THE 50S IN NWRN OSAGE CO.  THOT ABT DROPPING
FFA FOR A FEW COUNTIES...BUT XPCT CDFNT TO STALL SOON AS STG S/W
APRCHS FM THE WEST.  ALSO SOME ACTVTY HAS DVLPD IN PARTS OF NWRN OK
EVEN BHND THE FNT.  NEW ETA DOES SHOW AN GOOD S/W COMING THRU TNGT.
MAY HV TO XTND FFA INTO TNGT...BUT WL WAIT TIL AFTN PCKG.  THIS SHUD
BE THE LAST ONE FOR A WHILE.  IN THE MEANTIME...ERY MRNG FCST LUKS
ON TRAK AND ANY CHGS WL BE MINOR.

..11..

.TUL...FFA TODAY FOR OKZ054>076-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029 (ALL ZONES
       EXCEPT MCCURTAIN COUNTY)

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 12:08 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1208 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1100 AM    NORTH OF FORUM            AR   BRIDGE ON A COUNTY ROAD NORTH
06/10/95   MADISON                        OF FORUM WASHED OUT

1100 AM    EUREKA SPRINGS            AR   MUDSLIDE ONTO HWY 62 CAUSED
06/10/95   CARROLL                        ROAD TO BE CLOSED.  HWY 187
                                          CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER

1142 AM    ARMY AMMO PLANT           OK   60-70 MPH WINDS
06/10/95   PITTSBURG

Local storm report, Jun 10, 12:16 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1208 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1100 AM    NORTH OF FORUM            AR   BRIDGE ON A COUNTY ROAD NORTH
06/10/95   MADISON                        OF FORUM WASHED OUT

1100 AM    EUREKA SPRINGS            AR   MUDSLIDE ONTO HWY 62 CAUSED
06/10/95   CARROLL                        ROAD TO BE CLOSED.  HWY 187
     r                                     CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER

1142 AM    ARMY AMMO PLANT           OK   60-70 MPH WINDS
06/10/95   PITTSBURG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll	3 hr
Jun 10, 7:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Washington	3 hr
Jun 10, 9:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Madison	3 hr
Jun 10, 10:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll	2 hr
Jun 10, 2:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison	3 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.