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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2017, 6:13 AM CDT for Crawford County, Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report 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
- Aug 15, 2017, 6:13 AM CDT (11:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2017, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 8:14 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 N Ozark, AR | WATER IN SEVERAL HOMES ALONG HIGHWAY 23 NORTH. |
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 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
584
WGUS54 KTSA 151113
FFWTSA
ARC033-047-151415-
/O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0047.170815T1113Z-170815T1415Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
613 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 2017
The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Central Franklin County in west central Arkansas...
East central Crawford County in northwestern Arkansas...
* Until 915 AM CDT
* At 610 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. 2 to 3 inches of rain have
fallen and flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
* Some locations that may experience flooding include...
Ozark... Mulberry...
Dyer... Altus...
Denning... Wiederkehr Village...
Cass... Jethro...
Alix... Barnes...
Redding... Watalula...
Pleasant Hill... Toney...
Turners Bend... Lonelm...
Cecil... Taft...
Cravens... Paradise...
Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the
warned area.
This includes Interstate 40 in Arkansas between mile markers 18 and
42.
LAT...LON 3543 9371 3537 9372 3536 9375 3542 9380
3539 9381 3551 9416 3575 9375 3576 9370
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin | 4 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 8:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 9 hr |
| Aug 15, 10:09 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 24 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:30 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | TSA | 4 hr |
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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.