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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 19, 2004Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2004, 4:33 PM CDT for Sebastian 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: Jun 19, 2004, 4:33 PM CDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sebastian County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 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 192135
FFWTUL
ARC131-200130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
433 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN   
  OVER MUCH OF SEBASTIAN COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.        
  FLOODING WAS REPORTED WITHIN THE CITY OF FORT SMITH BY THE POLICE  
  DEPARTMENT. RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY      
  FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE         
  POSSIBLE THROUGH 830 PM CDT.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE HARTFORD...HACKETT...GREENWOOD...BARLING...LAVACA...
  HUNTINGTON...MIDLAND...BURNVILLE...EXCELSIOR...FT CHAFFEE...JENNY
  LIND AND BLOOMER.

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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR IS
OCCURRING. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS...CREEKS AND DRAINAGE
DITCHES SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IF FLOODING IS
OBSERVED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER BY FOOT OR BY
AUTO...YOU MAY BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE STRONG CURRENT. 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.

LAT...LON 3509 9456 3497 9440 3527 9397 3545 9418

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 192305
FFSTUL
ARC131-200130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
600 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SEBASTIAN COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM
   CDT...

AT 600 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE SHIFTED EAST OF 
SEBASTIAN COUNTY...WITH ONLY SCATTERED LIGHT RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF 
THE COUNTY. 

RADAR AND OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
FALLEN OVER NORTHERN SEBASTIAN COUNTY WITHIN THE PAST FEW 
HOURS...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN 
INCH EXPECTED THROUGH 830 PM CDT.

FLOODING ASSOCIATED WITH THE PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINS MAY CONTINUE TO 
AFFECT THE LOCATIONS OF FORT SMTIH...BARLING...HACKETT...GREENWOOD...
ARKOLA...WITCHERVILLE...BURNVILLE...JENSON...JENNY LIND...RYE HILL 
AND CENTRAL CITY.

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 3520 9447 3507 9432 3522 9408 3538 9422

$$

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 200121
FFSTUL
ARC131-200130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
816 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SEBASTIAN COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE AT 830 PM CDT....

AT 815 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED WELL 
EAST OF SEBASTIAN COUNTY.  PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR THE REMAINDER 
OF THE NIGHT ARE VERY LOW...WHICH SHOULD ALLOW ANY FLOOD WATERS TO 
RECEED.  THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SEBASTIAN COUNTY 
WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. 

MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR ANY RESIDUAL STANDING WATER...AND 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. 

LAT...LON 3515 9454 3502 9438 3533 9395 3550 9416

$$

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.