Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 22, 1996, 2:31 AM CDT for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 119 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
- Apr 22, 1996, 2:31 AM CDT (07:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1996, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 220733 FFWTUL ARC087-220930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 231 AM CDT MON APR 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...MADISON COUNTY AT 231 AM...RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF MADISON COUNTY OVER PAST FEW HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR TWO OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 330 AM. 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. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
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 Apr 21, 9:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 9:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 920 PM CDT SUN APR 21 1996 WATER VAPOR SHOWS A SHORTWAVE MOVING SLOWLY EAST ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS...WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND INTO WEST TEXAS. MEANWHILE...SURFACE MAPS SHOW A COLD FRONT FROM JUST WEST OF A TOP-ICT-GAG-DHT LINE WITH DEW POINTS BETWEEN 60 TO 65 TO ITS SOUTHEAST ACROSS MUCH OF OKLAHOMA AND INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. MOISTURE AT 8H SHOULD ALSO BE PLENTIFUL WITH 12C DEW POINTS AT FTW AND SHV. KTLX AND KINX 88- D'S SHOW SCT STRONG TRW ACROSS THE REGION AND EXPECT THIS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE COLD FRONT PASSES LATER TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING. THINK FLASH FLOOD THREAT IS MARGINAL BUT WILL KEEP IT WITH ALL THE STORMS AROUND AND SOME STORMS HAVING THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE A QUICK INCH AND A HALF OR TWO INCHES ON TOP OF PLACES WHICH MAY HAVE ALREADY HAD STORMS. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL END AS THE COLD FRONT PASSES WITH ONLY LINGERING PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN REMAINING. RAIN SHOULD END FROM THE NORTHWEST TOMORROW AS THE COLD FRONT PUSHES FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST AWAY FROM THE AREA. .TUL... OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ZNS 54>76 TONIGHT. AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ZNS 1/2/10/11/19/29 TONIGHT. ABBAS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 9:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
OKZ054>076-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-221245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 950 PM CDT SUN APR 21 1996 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TONIGHT... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING EASTERN OKLAHOMA COUNTIES TONIGHT... OSAGE...WASHINGTON...PAWNEE...NOWATA...CRAIG...OTTAWA... DELAWARE...MAYES...ROGERS...TULSA...CREEK....OKFUSKEE.... OKMULGEE...MUSKOGEE...MCINTOSH...WAGONER...ADAIR...CHEROKEE... HASKELL...LATIMER...LE FLORE...PITTSBURG AND SEQUOYAH. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALSO INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING NORTHWEST ARKANSAS COUNTIES... BENTON...CARROLL...CRAWFORD...MADISON...SEBASTIAN AND WASHINGTON. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR FLASH FLOODING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OCCURRED OVER PARTS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND SHOULD SPREAD INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DURING THE NIGHT. WITH AN UPPER ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE WEST AND A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER AND MOVE ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TONIGHT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL FEED UPON AIR THAT IS RICH IN MOISTURE AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. THUS...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHICH HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS EARLIER IN THE DAY. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO MAKE PLANS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING TONIGHT...PARTICULARLY IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA. IF YOU SHOULD ENCOUNTER FLOODED ROADWAYS...PLEASE DO NOT DRIVE INTO THE WATER AS THE ROAD UNDERNEAT(H MAY HAVE BEEN WASHED OUT. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR POSSIBLE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 10:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
OKZ054>056-059-220415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1050 PM CDT SUN APR 21 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 218 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA COUNTIE0S... PAWNEE...OSAGE...WASHINGTON...AND NOWATA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF THESE COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 3 AM.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 1:31 AM CDT, 1 hour before
OKZ057-058-060>062-064-067-220900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 130 AM CDT MON APR 22 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 218 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA COUNTIES... CREEK...TULSA...WAGONER...ROGERS...CRAIG...MAYES AND OTTAWA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF THESE COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA SOUTH AND EAST 4OF THESE COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM CDT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 51 min |
| Apr 21, 11:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 52 min |
| Apr 21, 11:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 11:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 12:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 1:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 35 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.