Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Feb 6, 1999, 8:18 PM CST for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 87 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
- Feb 6, 1999, 8:18 PM CST (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 1999, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Benton County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 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 070220 FFWTUL ARC007-070345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 818 PM CST SAT FEB 6 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM CST * AT 818 PM CST FLOODING WAS REPORTED ALONG ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY 264 WHICH RUNS TO THE NEW REGIONAL AIRPORT. AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL PERSIST OVER BENTON COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM. HIWASSE...DECATUR...CAVE SPRINGS...HIGHFILL...SPRINGTOWN...PEA RIDGE...GRAVETTE...GENTRY...LOWELL...ROGERS AND BENTONVILLE AND ADJACENT COMMUNITIES MAY BE AFFECTED BY FLASH FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3616 94h51 3627 9404 3645 9393 3646 9451
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 Feb 6, 3:15 PM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 3:15 PM CST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 315 PM CST SAT FEB 6 1999 PROBLEM(S) OF THE DAY: WILL THERE BE SEVERE CONVECTION? WHAT TYPE(S) OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR? POTENT SHORT WAVE MOVING ACROSS NM THIS AFTERNOON TOWARD WEST TX WILL MOVE ON RATHER QUICKLY ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE NEXT 12-18 HRS. DEVELOPING SURFACE LOW WAS LOCATED NEAR SPS ALONG THE RED RIVER AT 21Z WITH SURFACE BOUNDARY ORIENTED SW-NE STRETCHING ACROSS THE AREA. LATEST RUC DOING A FAIRLY GOOD JOB WITH THE DEVELOPING LOW AND MOVES THE LOW ACROSS THE STATE...TO NEAR SEMINOLE AT 00Z...NEAR MIAMI AT 03Z...THEN ON INTO SOUTHWEST MO BY MIDNIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH JUST ISSUED TILL 9 PM THIS EVENING FOR AREAS ROUGHLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-44. MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT IN MOVING UPPER SYSTEM ACROSS WEST TX AND INTO EASTERN OK BY MIDNIGHT...THEN ON TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE AREA BY 12Z. WILL ALSO HAVE TO WATCH FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN THIS EVENING...BUT WILL NOT ISSUE FFA AT THIS TIME WITH STORMS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ON THE MOVE. SOME POTENTIAL FOR TRAINING ALONG SW-NE SURFACE BOUNDARY IF IT REMAINS ORIENTED AS IT IS TOO LONG...SO WILL NEED TO WATCH FOR THIS CLOSELY. PRECIP IS EXPECTED TO CUT OFF QUICKLY AND MOVE TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE AREA BY MORNING. SHOULD BE A PLEASANT DAY ON SUNDAY WITH GOOD SUBSIDENCE BEHIND SYSTEM WITH NICE WEATHER EXTENDING INTO MONDAY AND TUESDAY. TEMPS WELL ABOVE NORMAL. NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN STILL LOOKS TO BE WEDNESDAY INTO EARLY THURSDAY. FCSTID = 4 TUL 46 62 44 70 / 90 10 0 0 FSM 47 63 39 70 / 90 10 0 0 MLC 47 64 42 70 / 90 10 0 0 BVO 42 62 40 70 / 80 10 0 0 FYV 48 60 38 67 / 90 10 0 0 IDB 50 65 39 72 / 90 10 0 0 BYV 47 60 37 67 / 90 10 0 0 MIO 45 61 40 68 / 90 10 0 0 MKO 46 62 44 70 / 90 10 0 0 F10 46 62 43 70 / 90 10 0 0 HHW 50 65 40 72 / 90 10 0 0 .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. -------------------- EXPERIMENTAL OUTPUT: HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED NEXT 24 HOURS: CHANCE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NGM CONFIDENCE: 6 ON A SCALE OF 0 TO 10 ETA CONFIDENCE: 7 ON A SCALE OF 0 TO 10 AVN CONFIDENCE: 6 ON A SCALE OF 0 TO 10 FCST CONFIDENCE: 7 ON A SCALE OF 0 TO 10
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 6, 7:55 PM CST, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
755 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM WILBURTON OK WIND DAMAGE
02/06/99 LATIMER MANY POWER LINES REPORTED
DOWN...SEVERAL TREES
UPROOTED
0710 PM 5 S WILBURTON OK WIND DAMAGE
02/06/99 LATIMER SEVERAL HOUSES DAMAGED BY
WINDLocal storm report, Feb 6, 8:05 PM CST, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
805 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0804 PM 4 E HACKETT AR 60 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99 SEBASTIANLocal storm report, Feb 6, 8:08 PM CST, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
808 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM EXCELSIOR AR 65 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99 SEBASTIAN
0807 PM 2 E HUNTINGTON AR 70 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99 SEBASTIANLocal storm report, Feb 6, 8:08 PM CST, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
808 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM EXCELSIOR AR 65 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99 SEBASTIAN
0807 PM 2 E HUNTINGTON AR 70 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99 SEBASTIANSpecial weather statement, Feb 6, 8:10 PM CST, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
810 PM CST SAT FEB 6 1999
OKZ072-074-075-070309-
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 42 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
HASKELL LATIMER SEQUOYAH
OKZ049-053-076-070300-
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 42 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM
CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
CHOCTAW LE FLORE PUSHMATAHALocal storm report, Feb 6, 8:12 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
812 PM CST SAT FEB 06 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 PM GREENWOOD AR 70 MPH TSTM GUST
02/06/99 SEBASTIANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 7:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 58 min |
| Feb 6, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 53 min |
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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.