Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1995, 2:35 PM CDT for Benton County, Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1995, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 346 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 101937 FFWTUL ARC007-015-087-102230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 235 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...BENTON COUNTY...CARROLL COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY A LARGE AREA OF STEADY RAIN WAS OVER THE WARNING AREA AT 235 PM. THE RAIN WAS MOSTLY MODERATE IN INTENSITY...BUT HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS BENTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. RAINFALL RATES WILL BE MOSTLY 1/2 INCH PER HOUR OR LESS...BUT THE ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL RUNOFF AND AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING SITUATION. THE RAIN WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH OVER BENTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES BY 400 PM...AND OVER CARROLL AND MADISON COUNTIES BEFORE 500 PM. 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 INT|O 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, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 10:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 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, 2 hours 27 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 PITTSBURGLocal storm report, Jun 10, 12:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 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 PITTSBURGSpecial weather statement, Jun 10, 12:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
OKZ054>077-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-111200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS A SMALL PART OF WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE MODERATE RISK AREA INCLUDES THESE COUNTIES IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA.. SEQUOYAH...HASKELL...LATIMER...AND LE FLORE. THESE COUNTIES IN WESTERN ARKANSAS ARE ALSO IN THE MODERATE RISK.. CRAWFORD AND SEBASTIAN. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REST OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF THE MODERATE RISK AREA AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM. A SURFACE BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED FROM FORT SMITH TO TALIHINA EARLY THIS MORNING. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THIS BOUNDARY. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY TONIGHT IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA AS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES IN THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS. A STATIONARY FRONT WAS LOCATED ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA FROM VINITA TO BRISTOW EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AS AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES EASTWARD FROM NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR THE FRONT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA MAY WANT TO CONSIDER ACTIVATION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT AND KEEP THE THREAT OF STORMS IN THE FORECAST. LATER TONIGHT...THE COLD FRONT WILL BEGIN MOVING SOUTHWARD AND WILL END THE THREAT OF STRONG STORM FROM NORTH TO SOUTH.
Local storm report, Jun 10, 2:29 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
229 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0109 PM FAYETTEVILLE AR NUMEROUS REPORTS OF COUNTY
06/10/95 WASHINGTON ROADS FLOODED.Local storm report, Jun 10, 2:32 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
229 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0109 PM FAYETTEVILLE ^ AR NUMEROUS REPORTS OF COUNTY
06/10/95 WASHINGTON ROADS FLOODED.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, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 4 hr |
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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.