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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 17, 2000Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 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 17, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2000, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Franklin County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 180432
FFWTSA
ARC047-180630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1130 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 1128 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO
  HEAVY RAINS OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2
  INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.  PARTS
  OF FRANKLIN COUNTY RECEIVED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN EARLIER
  TODAY...SO THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL RAPIDLY RUN `OFF LEADING TO
  THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING.

CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3549 9404 3550 9368 3572 9360 3576 9390

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.