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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 13, 2003Crawford County, Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2003, 4:03 PM CDT for Crawford County, Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 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: May 13, 2003, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 1853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 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 132105
FFWTUL
ARC033-047-140100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
403 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 403 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN   
  OVER CRAWFORD AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  
  FLOODING WAS REPORTED ON SECONDARY ROADS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY.       
  RAINFALL RATES OVER ONE INCH PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE  
  THUNERSTORMS.  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE  
  INTO CRAWFORD AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES THROUGH 8 PM.  

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHERE WATER 
COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING 
WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A 
DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER 
RECEDES. REMEMBER...MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3573 9442 3547 9437 3534 9387 3575 9375

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 132216
FFSTUL
ARC033-047-140100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
512 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR FRANKLIN AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES
   UNTIL 800 PM CDT...

AT 512 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE 
OVER CRAWFORD AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS MOVED 
OUT OF THOSE COUNTIES.

RADAR INDICATES THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN 
OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER QUARTER OF AN INCH OF RAIN WILL 
BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 800 PM CDT.

FLOODING WAS REPORTED ON RURAL ROADS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY EARLIER THIS 
AFTERNOON AND LIKELY IS CONTINUING.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
INCLUDE OZARK...MULBERRY...VESTA...MEG...CECIL...ALTUS...TONEY...
LONELM...CRAVENS...WATALULA...JETHRO...FERN...PARADISE...BARNES...
TURNERS BEND...CASS...REDDING...ALMA...KIBLER...SHIBLEY...FURRY...
DYER AND RUDY.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO
UNKNOWN DEPTHS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY
MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO
REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. REMEMBER...
MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.


LAT...LON 3549 9439 3536 9426 3534 9378 3581 9373

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 132346
FFSTUL
ARC033-047-140015-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
645 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR FRANKLIN AND CRAWFORD 
COUNTIES...

RAINFALL HAS ENDED OVER FRANKLIN AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES...AND 
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS NOT EXPECTED THIS EVENING.

LAT...LON 3574 9444 3547 9439 3544 9375 3573 9371

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton	37 min
May 13, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	44 min
May 13, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	39 min
May 13, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	28 min
May 13, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	44 min
May 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	50 min
May 13, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	54 min
May 13, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	38 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.