Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1989, 10:24 PM CDT for Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1989, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1989, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nowata County, OK
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 110325 FFWTUL OKC105-110430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1024 PM CDT JUN 10 1989 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH F
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 10, 9:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
907 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989
TIME/CDT COUNTY EVENT (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
8 29 PM WASHINGTON A TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN 4 MILES SOUTH/
WEST OF CANEY, KS...JUST INSIDE THE OKLAHOMA/
KANSAS STATE LINE. DAMAGE WAS CONFINED TO TREES
ONLY IN THAT AREA.
8 15 PM WASHINGTON GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED SOUTH OF CANEY, KS
JUST INSIDE THE OKLAHOMA/KANSAS BORDER ON THE
OKLAHOMA SIDE.Local storm report, Jun 10, 9:33 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
931 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989
TIME/CDT COUNTY EVENT (CD=CIVIL DEFENSE OHP=OK HIGHWAY PAT'L)
8 00 PM OSAGE 60 MPH WIND REPORTED NEAR HULAH RESEVO IR BY OSAGE
COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 9:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 10:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.