Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 7, 2002Carroll County, Madison County, Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 7, 2002, 7:33 PM CDT for Carroll County, Madison County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2002, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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 00:00Z, 0.6 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.

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: 472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 080033
FFWTUL
ARC015-087-143-080315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
731 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* RADAR AND RAIN GAUGE REPORTS INDICATE THAT UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN
  HAS FALLEN SO FAR IN PARTS OF CARROLL...MADISON AND WASHINGTON     
  COUNTIES WHICH HAS SATURATED THE GROUND.  ADDITIONAL RAIN AND
  THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST INTO THE EARLY NIGHTTIME HOURS AND THIS
  WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...CREEKS...LOW-LYING STREETS 
  AND POORLY DRAINED AREAS.  

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY
  RAIN INCLUDE BERRYVILLE...EUREKA SPRINGS...GREEN FOREST...
  HUNTSVILLE...ST PAUL...PETTIGREW...AURORA...WESLEY...
  KINGSTON...FAYETTEVILLE...WINSLOW...WEST FORK 
  FARMINGTON AND STRICKLER.

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.

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 3617 9330 3614 9347 3608 9344 3597 9344
          3589 9352 3578 9352 3578 9368 3579 9449
          3621 9411 3624 9400 3624 9386 3649 9385
          3649 9330

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 080202
FFSTUL
ARC015-033-047-087-131-143-080315-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CARROLL...MADISON...
   WASHINGTON...FRANKLIN...CRAWFORD AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES UNTIL
   1015 PM CDT...

...A SERIOUS FLASH FLOOD SITUATION IS DEVELOPING...

HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.  
RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS ALREADY OCCURRED AND AND ADDITIONAL 1 
TO 2 INCHES IS LIKELY AT MANY LOCATIONS BEFORE THE RAIN DIMINISHES.

FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY UNDERWAY AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN SEBASTIAN 
COUNTY AND THE SITUATION WILL ONLY GET WORST THROUGHOUT THE REGION.  
SEVERAL FORT SMITH STREETS HAVE BEEN FLOODED AND A BRIDGE ON HIGHWAY 
252 JUST NORTHEAST OF LAVAC HAS BEEN COVERED WITH WATER.  

WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS LIKELY TONIGHT.  THIS IS A DANGEROUS 
SITUATION.  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.

ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE CURRENT FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE 
EXTENDED.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS AT 9PM INCLUDE...FORT SMITH 3.32 INCHES AND 2.46 
INCHES AT FAYETTEVILLE.

LAT...LON 3613 9329 3577 9368 3538 9370 3532 9380
          3532 9391 3523 9391 3493 9444 3541 9443
          3611 9455 3610 9439 3621 9432 3624 9386
          3649 9385 3649 9329

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 9:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	6 hr
Apr 8, 3:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll, Franklin, Madison	3 hr
Apr 8, 6:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	4 hr
Apr 8, 2:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford	3 hr
Apr 8, 3:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Sebastian	3 hr
Apr 8, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Madison	3 hr
Apr 8, 3:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Franklin	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.