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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 30, 1999Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1999, 5:43 AM CDT for Benton County, Washington 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 1999, 5:43 AM CDT (10:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1999, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 301045
FFWTUL
ARC007-143-301245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
543 AM CDT WED JUN 30 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 745 AM CDT

* AT 543 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 
OVER MUCH OF BENTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 
MPH.  RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS ALREADY FALLEN...WITH 
ANOTHER 2 INCHES POSSIBLE.

TONTITOWN...CINCINNATI...GREENLAND...BRENTWOOD...STRICKLER...
BLACKBURN...FARMINGTON...ELKINS...PRAIRIE GROVE...LINCOLN...WEST
FORK...SPRINGDALE...FAYETTEVILLE...GARFIELD...BELLA VISTA...
HIWASSE...DECATUR...WAR EAGLE...CAVE SPRINGS...HIGHFILL...
SPRINGTOWN...PEA RIDGE...GRAVETTE...GENTRY...LOWELL...ROGERS AND
BENTONVILLE AND ADJACENT COMMUNITIES MAY BE AFFECTED BY FLASH
FLOODING.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

LAT...LON 3646 9459 3580 9446 3580 9399 3648 9388

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 30, 5:10 AM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 5:10 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
510 AM CDT WED JUN 30 1999

BUSY ALL NIGHT WITH ONGOING WEATHER SO NOT A LOT OF TIME TO LOOK AT
THINGS OR TO WRITE A DISCUSSION.

WAS GOING TO ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND POSSIBLY TONIGHT
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS BUT CURRENT CONVECTION
NOW MAKING DECENT PROGRESS TO THE SOUTH SO DECIDED TO HOLD OFF FOR
NOW. WILL WAIT TO SEE HOW THINGS EVOLVE THE NEXT FEW HOURS BUT MAY
YET NEED A WATCH SOMEWHERE...THE BIG QUESTION IS JUST WHERE.

SEVERAL MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE AREA
DURING THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS BEFORE MID LEVEL WARMING CAPS THINGS
OFF. WENT WAY ABOVE GUIDANCE POPS AND COOLER THAN GUIDANCE ON
TEMPERATURES ALTHOUGH DO EXPECT SOME WARMUP THURSDAY WITH MORE
SUNSHINE RETURNING BY AFTERNOON.

HAD NO TIME TO LOOK AT EXTENDED SO LITTLE OR NO CHANGES MADE THERE.

THANKS TO CHUCK IN SPRINGFIELD AND GREG IN LITTLE ROCK FOR
COORDINATION.

FCSTID = 5
TUL   80  70  87  72 /  80  70  50  40
FSM   82  72  90  73 /  70  40  30  20
MLC   82  73  90  74 /  70  40  30  20
BVO   80  70  87  72 /  70  70  50  40
FYV   80  70  85  70 /  80  70  50  40
IDB   88  72  91  73 /  50  30  20  10
BYV   80  70  85  70 /  80  70  50  40
MIO   80  70  86  71 /  70  70  50  40
MKO   80  72  88  73 /  90  50  40  30
F10   80  72  88  73 /  90  50  40  30
HHW   88  73  91  74 /  50  30  20  10

.TUL...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

PLATE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
420 AM CDT WED JUN 30 1999

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

0415 AM    MANNFORD                  OK    60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/99   CREEK                           SKYWARN SPOTTER
                                           REPORTED 60 MPH TSTM GUST

DRM

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
420 AM CDT WED JUN 30 1999

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

0415 AM    MANNFORD                  OK    60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/99   CREEK                           SKYWARN SPOTTER
                                           REPORTED 60 MPH TSTM GUST

DRM

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
422 AM CDT WED JUN 30 1999

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

0415 AM    2 E SAPULPA               OK    75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/99   CREEK

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
422 AM CDT WED JUN 30 1999

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

0415 AM    2 E SAPULPA               OK    75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/99   CREEK

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
425 AM CDT WED JUN 30 1999

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

0415 AM    2 W GLENPOOL              OK    75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/99   TULSA

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
425 AM CDT WED JUN 30 1999

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

0415 AM    2 W GLENPOOL              OK    75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/99   TULSA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 5:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Washington	2 hr
Jun 30, 5:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Madison	108 min
Jun 30, 8:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1999 Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.