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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 22, 2004Franklin County, Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 22, 2004, 11:24 PM CDT for Franklin County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 5 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: Apr 22, 2004, 11:24 PM CDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2004, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 543 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 230425
FFWTUL
ARC047-087-230900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1124 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN PORTIONS 
OF NORTHERN FRANKLIN AND SOUTHERN MADISON.  FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN 
REPORTED IN THE AREA NEAR MOUNTAINTOP IN NORTHEAST FRANKLIN 
COUNTY...AND MAY BE OCCURRING IN OTHER AREAS.  THE HEAVY RAIN HAS 
ENDED...BUT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST...AND AN ADDITIONAL 
ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE NIGHT. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE CASS...FERN...ST PAUL...PETTIGREW...AURORA...WESLEY...
  BOSTON...WITTER AND JAPTON.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS.  

LAT...LON 3603 9393 3558 9406 3549 9370 3598 9345

$$

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 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, 9:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Carroll	114 min
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.