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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 3, 20086 counties in Arkansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Mar 3, 2008, 8:54 AM CST for 6 counties in Arkansas; 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr. 10 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2008, 8:54 AM CST (14:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2008, 1:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:54 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
Mar 3, 9:00 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	2 N Albion, OK	WATER OVER A FEW SECONDARY ROADS.
Mar 3, 9:45 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Berryville, AR	NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED ACROSS THE COUNTY DUE TO HIGH WATER.
Mar 3, 9:45 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Elkins, AR	ROAD CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
Mar 3, 9:45 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Hindsville, AR	WATER OVER A FEW SECONDARY ROADS.
Mar 3, 10:45 AM CST	FLOOD	Poteau, OK	NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER REPORTED BY LE FLORE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.
Mar 3, 10:45 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	2 W Charleston, AR	SEVERAL SECONDARY ROADS FLOODED.
Mar 3, 10:45 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	4 N Muldrow, OK	SEVERAL SECONDARY ROADS FLOODED.
Mar 3, 10:45 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Fort Smith, AR	SEVERAL ROADS IN THE CITY FLOODED OR CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
Mar 3, 10:45 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Lequire, OK	SEVERAL SECONDARY ROADS FLOODED.
Mar 3, 10:45 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Red Oak, OK	SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED AROUND RED OAK DUE TO HIGH 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 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 031500
FFWTSA
ARC015-033-047-087-131-143-OKC061-077-079-121-127-135-031900-
/O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0013.080303T1454Z-080303T1900Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
854 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  SOUTHEASTERN HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHEASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  NORTHERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 100 PM CST

* AT 845 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A WIDE BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN FROM NORTHERN LATIMER COUNTY
  OKLAHOMA TO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. RADAR INDICTAED THAT THREE TO AS
  MUCH AS FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN PARTS OF EASTERN
  OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.  ANOTHER ONE TO
  TWO OF RAIN IS LIKELY THROUGH 1 PM. FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN   
  REPORTED IN SOME AREAS.  
 
* LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE...BARLING...JAPTON...DYER...FERN...OAK GROVE...JENNY
  LIND...HEAVENER...AURORA...MARBLE...MUSE...EXCELSIOR...LAVACA...
  MULBERRY...MIDLAND...WITTER...RULE...RUDD...GREEN FOREST...
  GREENWOOD...HARTFORD...SAINT PAUL...CASS...BIG CEDAR...BLOOMER...
  OCTAVIA...KINGSTON...BURNVILLE...HUNTINGTON...MANSFIELD...
  CARROLLTON...OSAGE...BOSTON...PETTIGREW...CHARLESTON...FORT
  CHAFFEE...WASHBURN...OZARK...BRANCH...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE...ALTUS
  AND DENNING.

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.

WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY REMEMBER...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN.
TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE. REMEMBER...MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR 
IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3648 9328 3615 9328 3611 9345 3576 9350
      3575 9367 3538 9371 3521 9392 3523 9400
      3514 9403 3507 9423 3496 9423 3491 9443
      3452 9448 3452 9568 3565 9458 3565 9447
      3573 9449 3622 9406 3625 9387 3649 9382
TIME...MOT...LOC 1454Z 294DEG 50KT 3622 9363 3470 9483

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 11:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	47 min
Mar 3, 12:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	62 min
Mar 3, 12:31 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	44 min
Mar 3, 1:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	59 min
Mar 3, 1:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	6 hr
Mar 3, 1:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	57 min
Mar 3, 1:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll, Madison	52 min
Mar 3, 2:56 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Franklin	6 hr
Mar 3, 3:41 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	6 hr
Mar 3, 4:05 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	28 hr
Mar 3, 7:43 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	3 hr
Mar 3, 8:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	26 hr
Mar 3, 5:54 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford	7 hr
Mar 2, 6:48 PM CST	Wind Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 10 more	11 hr
Mar 2, 7:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	45 min
Mar 2, 7:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	54 min
Mar 2, 7:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	44 min
Mar 2, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	45 min
Mar 2, 8:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	56 min
Mar 2, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	47 min
Mar 2, 9:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	57 min
Mar 2, 9:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	49 min
Mar 2, 9:35 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	25 min
Mar 2, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	39 min
Mar 2, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	46 min
Mar 2, 9:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	23 min
Mar 2, 9:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	67 min
Mar 2, 10:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	55 min
Mar 2, 10:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	53 min
Mar 2, 11:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	52 min
Mar 2, 11:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	62 min
Mar 2, 11:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	48 min
Mar 3, 12:51 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	54 min
Mar 3, 2:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	6 hr
Mar 3, 4:05 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 13 more	26 hr
Mar 3, 4:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	6 hr
Mar 3, 8:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	24 hr
Mar 3, 8:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	3 days
Mar 3, 8:18 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.