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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 27, 2004Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Oct 27, 2004, 1:34 PM CDT for Franklin 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 2004, 1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Franklin County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 271838
FFWTUL
ARC047-272130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
134 PM CDT WED OCT 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 126 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY REPORTED 
FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN THE OZARK AREA. THE INTERSECTION OF 
HIGHWAY 64 AND 23 WAS FLOODED WITH WATER UP TO A FOOT DEEP. FLOODING 
WAS ALSO OCCURING ALONG HIGHWAY 64 BETWEEN OZARK AND THE PINE CREEK 
AREA. MULBERRY CREEK WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS AS WELL. OTHER LOW LYING 
AREAS WERE FLOODED IN AND AROUND OZARK. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT 
CAUSED THE FLOODING ARE MOVING OUT OF THE AREA BUT ADDITIONAL 
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE BACK INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE...OZARK...DENNING...ALTUS AND WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE.

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 3550 9399 3534 9390 3546 9369 3570 9393

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 271948
FFSTUL
ARC047-272130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
247 PM CDT WED OCT 27 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR FRANKLIN
COUNTY...

AT 240 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY CONTINUED TO 
REPORT FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 64 NEAR THE WESTERN INTERSECTION OF 
HIGHWAY 23.  FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED ALONG SHADEY LANE ROAD 
SOUTHEAST OF OZARK.  OTHER FLOODING WAS REPORTED ON THE MULBERRY 
RIVER NORTH OF OZARK.  RAINFALL REPORTS RANGED FROM 1.5 INCHES UP TO 
AROUND 3 INCHES IN THE OZARK AREA.  

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY FLOODING 
INCLUDE OZARK...DENNING...ALTUS...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE AND CECIL.

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. 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 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.

LAT...LON 3545 9406 3539 9371 3573 9370 3568 9401

$$

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 272122
FFSTUL
ARC047-272135-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
420 PM CDT WED OCT 27 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

ALL HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...INCLUDING THE AREA 
THREATENED BY FLASH FLOODING...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS 
BEEN CANCELLED.  

AT 410 PM...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT ALL HIGH 
WATER HAD RECEDED.  AT 415 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR 
INDICATED ONLY ISOLATED LIGHT SHOWERS IN...AND AROUND FRANKLIN 
COUNTY. 



LAT...LON 3545 9406 3539 9371 3573 9370 3568 9401

$$

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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.