Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2002, 3:54 AM CST for Crawford County, Arkansas. It was in force for 96 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2002, 3:54 AM CST (09:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -165 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 190954 FFWTUL ARC033-191130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 352 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 530 AM CST * AT 349 AM CST RADAR INDICATED MODERATE RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED FLOODING ON LOW LYING ROADS IN SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA SINCE LAST NIGHT. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 530 AM CST. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE MULBERRY...VAN BUREN...ALMA...DYER...FIGURE FIVE AND RUDY. 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 3556 9448 3533 9425 3548 9406 3556 9405
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KTSA 191125 FFSTUL ARC033-047-131-OKC077-079-121-127-191145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 525 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR CRAWFORD... FRANKLIN...SEBASTIAN...LE FLORE...PITTSBURG...LATIMER AND PUSHMATAHA COUNTIES AT 530 AM CST... AT 525 AM CST...RADAR SHOWED THAT THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE AREA. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING WHICH MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:42 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 11:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 96 min |
| Mar 19, 1:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 11:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Madison | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2002Every 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.