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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 21, 2000Crawford County, Franklin County, Washington County, Arkansas; Adair County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2000, 12:43 PM CDT for Crawford County, Franklin County, Washington County, Arkansas; Adair County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 77 min. 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 21, 2000, 12:43 PM CDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
77 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-21Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -169 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
1116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-226 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 211744
FFWTSA
ARC033-047-143-OKC001-211900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1243 PM 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
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* HIGHWAY PATROL AND SHERRIF'S OFFICES CONTINUE TO REPORT NUMEROUS
  ROADS FLOODED OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. AT 1240 PM...RADAR CONTINUED
  TO SHOW AN AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS MOVING BACK INTO
  THE REGION. FROM 4 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE
  FALLEN ACROSS THIS AREA WITH ANOTHER INCH OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE
  THIS AFTERNOON. RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS.


* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE LEE CREEK...CHESTER...NATURAL DAM...MOUNTAINBURG...
  CINCINNATI...BRENTWOOD...STRICKLER...BLACKBURN...PRAIRIE GROVE...
  LINCOLN...WEST FORK...WINSLOW...WESTVILLE...CHRISTIE...BARON 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 3609 9474 3571 9477 3557 9416 3593 9405

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 1:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSABenton3 hr
Jun 21, 3:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington2 hr
Jun 21, 5:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington4 hr
Jun 21, 9:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Washington3 hr
Jun 20, 11:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAOttawa3 hr
Jun 21, 12:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAOsage3 hr
Jun 21, 1:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACraig, Nowata3 hr
Jun 21, 2:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAAdair, Delaware3 hr
Jun 21, 6:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee3 hr
Jun 21, 7:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah3 hr
Jun 21, 10:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah3 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.