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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 8, 2002Carroll County, Franklin County, Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 8, 2002, 3:01 AM CDT for Carroll County, Franklin County, Madison 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2002, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 080801
FFWTUL
ARC015-047-087-081100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
301 AM CDT MON APR 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 301 AM CDT...MUCH OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT HAS AFFECTED       
  NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAD MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. 3 TO 5 INCHES OF    
  RAIN HAS OCCURRED...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. WHILE THE HEAVY   
  RAINFALL HAS ENDED...RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER RAINFALL WILL         
  CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. 

  MADISON COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT THAT EVACUATIONS ARE ONGOING ON    
  THE SOUTH SIDE OF ST. PAUL. BRIDGES HAVE ALSO BEEN FLOODED...AND   
  NUMEROUS STATE AND COUNTY HIGHWAYS ARE IMPASSABLE. 

  FLOODING OF COUNTY ROADS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL CONTINUE     
  ACROSS FRANKLIN AND CARROLL COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS     
  WELL.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE EXPERIENCE FLOODING        
  INCLUDE OAK GROVE...OZARK...BRANCH...DENNING...ALTUS...CASS...     
  WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE...BERRYVILLE...EUREKA SPRINGS...OSAGE...GREEN   
  FOREST...RUDD...RULE...URBANETTE...GRANDVIEW...BEAVER...           
  HUNTSVILLE...ST PAUL...PETTIGREW...AURORA...WESLEY...KINGSTON...   
  HINDSVILLE...FORUM...BOSTON...WITTER...JAPTON...MARBLE AND CLIFTY.

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.

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.

$$

LAT...LON 3516 9411 3542 9367 3650 9322 3653 9385

MANNING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 7:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison, Washington	3 hr
Apr 7, 9:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	6 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.