Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1991, 5:01 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Okmulgee County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1991, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1991, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 2043 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 222202 FFWTUL OKC101-111-145-230100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 501 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...NORTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY...SOUTHERN WAGONER COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE WARNING AREA IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN THE MUSKOGEE AREA AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE MORE FLOODING PROBLEMS IN THESE COUNTIES. AT 500 PM RADAR SHOWED A 40 MILE WIDE AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTHERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY TO OKMULGEE TO MUSKOGEE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS IN NORTHERN OKMULGEE...SOUTHERN WAGONER...AND NORTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINS FROM THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE RUNOFF PROBLEMS BETWEEN NOW AND 8 PM. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. IF YOUR VEHICLE GETS CAUGHT IN RISING WATER...ABANDONED IT QUICKLY. THEN MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 22, 12:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1253 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991
...REPORT FROM EARLY THIS MORNING...
TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT
300 AM PAWNEE TREES AND POWER LINES DOSWN IN PAWNEE
940 AM CREEK 60 MPH WINDS DOWNED SEVERAL LARGE TREES AND
MANY TREE LIMBS NEAR BRISTOWLocal storm report, Jun 22, 12:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK 1253 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991 ...REPORT FROM EARLY THIS MORNING... TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT 300 AM PAWNEE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN PAWNEE
Local storm report, Jun 22, 12:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK 1257 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1991 ...REPORT FROM EARLY THIS MORNING... TIME(CDT) COUNTY REPORT 300 AM PAWNEE TREES AND %POWER LINES DOWN IN PAWNEE THERE WAS NO SEVERE WEATHER IN CREEK COUNTY THIS MORNING. THE REPORT JUST SENT OF WIND DAMAGE NEAR BRISTOW WAS AN OLD REPORT FROM JUNE 5TH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 68 min |
| Jun 22, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 56 min |
| Jun 22, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 60 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.