Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Tulsa, OK
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Jun 21, 5:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington | 4 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 3 hr |
| 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, 10:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.