Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1998, 12:16 AM CDT for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 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
- Jun 9, 1998, 12:16 AM CDT (05:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1998, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sebastian County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 525 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 624 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 090516 FFWTUL ARC131-090730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1216 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 1214 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SEBASTIAN COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE DUMPED AS MUCH AS TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN A STRIP ACROSS CENTRAL SEBASTIAN COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH WILL OCCUR FROM HACKETT TO GREENWOOD TO WASHBURN AND MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!
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 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 090156 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 JUST SENT ANOTHER QUICK UPDATE TO COVER NEW TORNADO WATCH. CONT TO WATCH TORNADIC SUPERCELL MOVG ACRS PITTBURG...MCINTOSH AND HASKELL COUNTIES...AS WELL AS OTHER TSTMS N OF OKC AND OVER SC KS. SOUTHERN SUPERCELL IN AXIS OF BEST INSTABILITY WITH LAPS CAPES AOA 3000 J/KG. STORMS SHUD CONT NEXT FEW HOURS. WL ISSUE AT LEAST ONE MORE UPDATED ZFP/RDF PACKAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT. SMITH .TUL... OK...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 531 MOST OF SE OK. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 8, 8:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
842 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM HANNA OK .75 INCH HAIL
06/08/98 MCINTOSHLocal storm report, Jun 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0856 PM 4 S INDIANOLA OK TORNADO
06/08/98 PITTSBURG REPORTED BY CIVIL DEFENSE
SPOTTERSLocal storm report, Jun 8, 10:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1000 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0950 PM RUSSELLVILLE OK TORNADO
06/08/98 PITTSBURG REPORTED BY PITTSBURG
COUNTY EOCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 11:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 9, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 48 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.