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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 23, 2004Carroll County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 2004, 9:36 AM CDT for Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 114 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: Apr 23, 2004, 9:36 AM CDT (14:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2004, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carroll County, AR

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:37 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 231439
FFWTUL
ARC015-231630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
936 AM CDT FRI APR 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT

* AT 936 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN   
OVER RUDD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 1 TO 3 
INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 
3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1130 AM CDT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS
WILL ALSO MOVE ACROSS CARROLL COUNTY THROUGH 1100 AM.

* 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.

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 3632 9385 3613 9331 3647 9330 3650 9385

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Washington	3 hr
Apr 22, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Washington	63 min
Apr 22, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	66 min
Apr 22, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	56 min
Apr 22, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	42 min
Apr 22, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	13 min
Apr 22, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	25 min
Apr 22, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	24 min
Apr 22, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	64 min
Apr 22, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	64 min
Apr 22, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	65 min
Apr 22, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	59 min
Apr 22, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	5 hr
Apr 23, 3:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison, Washington	3 hr
Apr 23, 6:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Madison	4 hr
Apr 23, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.