Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Dec 14, 1992, 12:54 AM CST for Mayes County, Rogers County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 1992, 12:54 AM CST (06:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 14, 1992, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mayes County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 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 140655 FFWTUL OKC097-131-145-141400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1254 AM CST MON DEC 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...MAYES COUNTY...ROGERS COUNTY...WAGONER COUNTY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES WERE COMMON ACROSS THESE COUNTIES DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MANY COUNTY ROADS IN THE WARNED AREA REMAIN FLOODED AS OF 1230 AM. RADAR INDICATED THAT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL SPREAD OVER THESE COUNTIES DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THIS WILL KEEP CREEKS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES FLOODED AND MAY FORCE THEM TO RISE AGAIN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS LIKELY OR HAS BEEN REPORTED. STAY ALERT AND WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. REMEMBER...IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO THE NEAREST STREAM...CREEK OR RIVER WHICH CAN BECOME A KILLER DURING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN. 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 SA FELY. IF YOUR VEHICLE GETS CAUGHT IN RISING WATER...ABANDONED IT QUICKLY. THEN MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS. &
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.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Dec 13, 9:18 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 9:18 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 915 PM CST SAT DEC 12 1992 CDFNT HAS ENTERED THE NW PART OF THE FA THIS EVE AND AT 02Z XTNDD FM JUST W OF EMP TO JUST E OF PNC TO NR DFW. SFC 2HRLY PRESS CHG ANAL SHOW STRG RISES OVR NW KS AT 02Z. KTLX 88-D VAD DATE HAS SHOWN THE CD AIR SLOWLY DEEPNG THIS EVE AND XTRAPLTN SEEMS TO SUPPORT THE LFM IDEA OF THE FNT BISECTNG THE AREA AT 12Z. HVY RN HAS OCCRD DURNG THE LAST 12HRS WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES RPTD THIS EVENG FM NW OF MLC TO SW OF JLN. WITH VORT SWINGNG ARND THE NM H5 LOW TOWARD TX CLD TOPS WERE COOLNG ACRS NCNTRL TX AND WRN OK. THIS ACTVTY SHUD CONT TO WRK ACRS THE FA TNGT AND WL KP FFA IN PLACE...WHILE ITS DEBATABLE IF THE SITN IS A FLOOD OR FLASH FLOOD EVENT...LCL POLICY CALLS FOR FF WARNGS AND THE PT IS THERE IS HI WATER IN PARTS OF THE FA. HV BN VRY BUSY WITH FLOODNG SITN SO HV NOT HAD TIME TO EVLUAT THE SITN COMPLTLY BUT MAY ADD IP MIX AND COLDER MINS TO ZONE 26 AS TEMPS BEHIND THE FNT SHUD FALL INTO THE 30S...AT LEAST IN THE W SECTNS. /8 .OK...FFA ZONES 26 THRU 33.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 6:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Mayes | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 7:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 7:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 6 hr |
| Dec 14, 1:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 6 hr |
| Dec 14, 8:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner | 5 hr |
| Dec 14, 8:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig | 5 hr |
| Dec 14, 8:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 5 hr |
| Dec 14, 9:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 5 hr |
| Dec 14, 9:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers | 6 hr |
| Dec 14, 9:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 5 hr |
| Dec 14, 10:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware | 6 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.