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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jan 13, 2007, 10:20 AM CST for Crawford County, Franklin County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 6 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2007, 10:20 AM CST (16:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2007, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Sebastian County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 10:30 AM CST | FLASH FLOOD | Altus, AR | WATER COVERING RURAL ROADS. |
| Jan 13, 12:20 PM CST | FLASH FLOOD | Ozark, AR | FLOODING ON COUNTY ROADS, ISOLATED ROAD CLOSURES, HWY 64 AT OZARK COVERED WITH WATER |
| Jan 13, 12:49 PM CST | FLASH FLOOD | Lavaca, AR | HWY 92 AND 252 COVERED WITH WATER |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 131621 FFWTSA ARC033-047-131-132215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1020 AM CST SAT JAN 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 1018 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CEDARVILLE TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HUNTINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN SINCE YESTERDAY. ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 415 PM CST. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE...FIGURE FIVE...BURNVILLE...RUDY...WASHBURN...LAVACA... ALMA...BLOOMER...FORT CHAFFEE...DYER...MOUNTAINBURG...CHESTER... MULBERRY...BRANCH...FERN...OZARK...DENNING...ALTUS...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE AND CASS. 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 3560 9445 3495 9437 3541 9371 3579 9372 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KTSA 131900 FFSTSA FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007 ARC033-047-131-132215- SEBASTIAN AR-CRAWFORD AR-FRANKLIN AR- 100 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR FRANKLIN...CRAWFORD AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES... AT 1255 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...EXTENDING GENERALLY NORTHEAST OF A FORT SMITH TO FORT CHAFFEE LINE. ANOTHER AREA OF MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE INTO THE WARNED AREA BY 2 PM AND CONTINUE THROUGH 4 PM. ANOTHER ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 4 PM. FLOODING AND SOME ROAD CLOSURES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN PORTIONS OF SEBASTIAN AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN WORSENING FLOOD PROBLEMS WITH ADDITIONAL FLOODING LIKELY. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE RUDY...FIGURE FIVE...DYER...CHESTER...CEDARVILLE...ALMA... MOUNTAINBURG...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE...CASS...FERN...ALTUS...MULBERRY AND OZARK. IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS...WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST AUTOMOBILES...INCLUDING SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3560 9445 3495 9437 3541 9371 3579 9372 $$
000 WGUS74 KTSA 132214 FFSTSA FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 412 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007 ARC033-047-131-132216- SEBASTIAN AR-CRAWFORD AR-FRANKLIN AR- 412 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FRANKLIN...CRAWFORD AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 415 PM CST... THE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH RESULT IN FLOODING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SEBASTIAN AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES...HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. AT 410 PM...SOME LOW LYING AREAS AND A FEW COUNTY ROADS REMAINED FLOODED IN FRANKLIN COUNTY BUT THESE FLOOD WATERS WILL CONTINUE TO RECEDE THROUGH 6 PM. MOTORISTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE CAUTION AND ARE URGED TO STAY OUT OF FLOODED AREAS. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. AS A RESULT...MORE FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. LAT...LON 3560 9445 3495 9437 3541 9371 3579 9372 $$
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.