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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2000, 5:58 AM CDT for Adair County, Oklahoma; 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 4 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 21, 2000, 5:58 AM CDT (10:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1026 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KTSA 211057 FFWTSA ARC033-047-131-143-OKC001-211500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 558 AM CDT WED JUN 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1000 AM CDT * AT 554 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF ADAIR... CRAWFORD...WASHINGTON...FRANKLIN...AND SEBASTIA COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER MOST OF THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1000 AM CDT. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE LEE CREEK...RUDY...FIGURE FIVE...DYER...CHESTER...NATURAL DAM...CEDARVILLE...ALMA...VAN BUREN...MOUNTAINBURG...TONTITOWN... CINCINNATI...GREENLAND...BRENTWOOD...STRICKLER...BLACKBURN... FARMINGTON...ELKINS...PRAIRIE GROVE...LINCOLN...WEST FORK... WINSLOW...SPRINGDALE...FAYETTEVILLE...BLOOMER...JENNY LIND...FT CHAFFEE...EXCELSIOR...BURNVILLE...MIDLAND...HUNTINGTON...LAVACA... BARLING...GREENWOOD...HARTFORD...FORT SMITH...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE... CASS...FERN...ALTUS...DENNING...BRANCH...MULBERRY...OZARK... WATTS...WESTVILLE...PROCTOR...CHRISTIE...BARON...BUNCH AND STILWELL. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ LAT...LON 3567 9480 3563 9447 3500 9439 3541 9368 I 3577 9369 3577 9395 3621 9389 3616 9482 DRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 77 min |
| Jun 21, 1:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 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.