Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Tulsa, OK

December 16, 2001Carroll County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Dec 16, 2001, 3:51 AM CST for Carroll 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 16, 2001, 3:51 AM CST (09:51 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2001, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Carroll County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 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 160951
FFWTUL
ARC015-161200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
351 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 600 AM CST

* AT 351 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH 
  EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF CARROLL COUNTY. ALL OF THIS 
  ACTIVITY IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST. ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND 
  THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS ALSO MOVING TOWARD THE AREA FROM THE 
  SOUTHWEST. 

  RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER
  THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH
  600 AM CST.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE OAK GROVE...BERRYVILLE...EUREKA SPRINGS...OSAGE...GREEN
  FOREST...RUDD...CARROLLTON...RULE...URBANETTE...GRANDVIEW AND
  BEAVER.

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.

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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

$$

MANNING

LAT...LON 3631 9385 3630 9364 3612 9354 3613 9329
          3651 9328 3649 9385

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 161216
FFSTUL
ARC015-087-161315-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
609 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CARROLL AND MADISON COUNTIES HAS          
   EXPIRED...

AT 609 AM CST...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN OVER 
CARROLL AND MADISON COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  THE RAIN
ACTIVITY HAS WEAKENED OVER THE LAST HOUR...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD 
WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  

LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER CARROLL AND MADISON COUNTIES THROUGH 
THE MORNING HOURS.  A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.  ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY REDEVELOP 
OVER THE WATCH AREA LATER TODAY.   RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO 
MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS IN CASE ADDITIONAL WARNINGS 
ARE ISSUED. 

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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 2:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Madison	4 hr
Dec 16, 4:42 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	4 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.