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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 5, 1992Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 1992, 9:03 AM CDT for Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 1992, 9:03 AM CDT (14:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 1992, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 1589 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 460 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 7.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 051405
FFWTUL
OKC107-111-051900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
903 AM CDT WED AUG 5 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...EASTERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY
 
AT 9 AM MODERATE RAIN CONTINUED FALLING OVER EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA.
RADAR ESTIMATES AND SURFACE REPORTS INDICATE WIDESPREAD RAINFALL
AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES OVER EASTERN OKFUSKEE AND SOUTHERN OKMULGEE
COUNTIES. FLOODING OF ROADS TO DEPTHS OF 4 FEET HAS BEEN REPORTED IN
THE HENRYETTA AREA. BETWEEN 9 AM AND NOON...ANOTHER INCH OR MORE OF
RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THIS AREA.
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	67 min
Aug 4, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	67 min
Aug 4, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	58 min
Aug 4, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	60 min
Aug 4, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	49 min
Aug 5, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	58 min
Aug 5, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	69 min
Aug 5, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	37 min
Aug 5, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	50 min
Aug 5, 2:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	4 hr
Aug 5, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	69 min
Aug 5, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	42 min
Aug 5, 4:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	57 min
Aug 5, 5:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pawnee	4 hr
Aug 5, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	65 min
Aug 5, 7:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	45 min
Aug 5, 7:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.