Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000

Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 17, 2000Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas; Adair County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2000, 5:35 AM CDT for Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas; Adair County, Oklahoma. 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: Jun 17, 2000, 5:35 AM CDT (10:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2000, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 171038
FFWTSA
ARC007-143-OKC001-171300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT

* AT 535 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS
  ADAIR...BENTON... AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. SEVERAL MORE HOURS OF
  VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE WARNED AREA...AND FLASH FLOODING
  CAN BE EXPECTED.

RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY
FALLEN OVER THE WARNING AREA. ANOTHER 2 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE
THROUGH 800 AM CDT.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
INCLUDE TONTITOWN...CINCINNATI...GREENLAND...FARMINGTON...ELKINS...
PRAIRIE GROVE...LINCOLN...SPRINGDALE...FAYETTEVILLE...GARFIELD...
BELLA VISTA...HIWASSE...DECATUR...WAR EAGLE...CAVE SPRINGS...
HIGHFILL...SPRINGTOWN...GATEWAY...PEA RIDGE...GRAVETTE...GENTRY...
LOWELL...ROGERS...SILOAM SPRINGS...BENTONVILLE...WATTS...WESTVILLE...
PROCTOR...CHRISTIE...BARON AND STILWELL.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 3596 9481 3570 9477 3604 9393 3649 9385
          3649 9459 3618 9456

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll, Franklin, Madison	2 hr
Jun 17, 7:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	93 min
Jun 17, 8:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford	2 hr
Jun 17, 10:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford	2 hr
Jun 16, 7:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata	4 hr
Jun 16, 9:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2000 Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2000 Every 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.