Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Feb 24, 2001, 1:35 PM CST for Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 115 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
- Feb 24, 2001, 1:35 PM CST (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 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 241936 FFWTUL ARC007-143-242130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 135 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 133 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARFIELD TO WINSLOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH WITH ADDITIONAL RAIN COVERING NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING NEAR BENTONVILLE...WITH FLASH FLOODING LIKELY THROUGHOUT BENTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS mBRIDGES...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. LAT...LON 3650 9460 3577 9449 3579 9396 3650 9387
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 66 min |
| Feb 24, 1:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 1:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 44 min |
| Feb 24, 1:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Franklin, Madison | 65 min |
| Feb 24, 2:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Madison | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.