Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Nov 1, 2004, 3:59 AM CST for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 6 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
- Nov 1, 2004, 3:59 AM CST (09:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2004, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Benton County, AR
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 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 011000 FFWTUL ARC007-011600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 359 AM CST MON NOV 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1000 AM CST * AT 355 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS BENTON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1000 AM CST. 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 3620 9457 3625 9388 3650 9387 3649 9463 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KTSA 011133 FFSTUL ARC007-011600- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 531 AM CST MON NOV 1 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 AM CST FOR BENTON COUNTY... AT 524 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN OVER BENTON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER NORTHWEST BENTON COUNTY. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. REMEMBER... MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3620 9457 3625 9388 3650 9387 3649 9463 $$
000 WGUS74 KTSA 011553 FFSTUL ARC007-011601- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 951 AM CST MON NOV 1 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR BENTON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM... THE HEAVY RAIN THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS MOVED WELL EAST OF THE WARNED AREA. ONLY LIGHT RAIN REMAINS IN THE AREA AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL BE INSUFFICIENT FOR ADDITIONAL FLOODING. LAT...LON 3620 9457 3625 9388 3650 9387 3649 9463 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 1:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| Nov 1, 3:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 6 hr |
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.