Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2000, 6:55 PM CDT for Madison 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
- Aug 23, 2000, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Madison County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 232358 FFWTSA ARC087-240200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 655 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 655 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER HUNTSVILLE. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 900 PM CDT. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE FORUM...HINDSVILLE AND HUNTSVILLE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER CPOVERS 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. LAT...LON 3600 9388 3600 9365 3618 9365 3618 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 Aug 23, 2:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 2:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 245 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2000 TERRAIN INDUCED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SECTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT WIDELY SCT ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS...DEVELOPING INTO SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OK...IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN. CONVECTION WILL QUICKLY DISSIPATE THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. WILL CONTINUE WITH PERSISTENCE THROUGH FORECAST PERIOD...WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN OVERALL SYNOPTIC PATTERN. UPPER HIGH CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER ARK WILL REDEVELOP/SHIFT NW INTO CO FRI MORNING. WILL CONTINUE TO SEE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS THU OVER WEST-CENTRAL ARK/SE OK...PRIMARILY IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. MESO ETA SLOWLY DECREASES LOW LEVEL MOISTURE BY FRI AND SHOULD SEE EVEN LESS PRECIP COVERAGE DURING THE DAY. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPS WILL REMAIN CLOSE TO TODAYS READINGS GIVE OR TAKE A DEGREE. EXTENDED PERIODS...HOT/DRY FORECAST CONTINUES THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS UPPER HIGH MOVES BACK INTO THE AREA. PRELIM NUMBERS: FCSTID = 12 TUL 78 101 78 100 / 5 5 5 5 FSM 76 103 76 102 / 10 20 10 10 MLC 76 101 76 100 / 10 20 10 10 BVO 76 103 76 102 / 5 5 5 5 FYV 69 98 69 97 / 10 20 10 10 BYV 69 98 69 97 / 10 20 10 10 MIO 73 99 73 98 / 5 5 5 10 MKO 76 101 76 100 / 5 10 5 10 F10 76 101 76 100 / 5 10 5 10 HHW 73 101 73 100 / 10 20 10 10 .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 1:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-241100- EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 120 PM CDT WED AUG 23 2000 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .OTHER HAZARDS... AN OZONE ALERT HAS BEEN POSTED FOR THE TULSA METROPOLITAN AREA FOR TODAY AND AGAIN ON THURSDAY. SEE THE PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT /OKCPNSTUL/ FOR MORE INFORMATION. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison | 38 min |
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.