Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Dec 14, 1992, 8:52 PM CST (02:52 UTC)

Expired

Dec 15, 1992, 2:00 AM CST

In force

5 hr

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK

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TTAA00 KTUL 150256
FFWTUL
OKC001-021-041-131-145-150800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
852 PM CST MON DEC 14 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...ADAIR COUNTY...CHEROKEE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...DELAWARE COUNTY...ROGERS COUNTY...WAGONER COUNTY
 
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS SPREADING INTO THE WARNED AREA AND THIS
RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUNOFF AND CAUSE RAPID RISES ON CREEKS AND
DRAINAGE DITCHES.  THIS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS.
 
THE RAIN MAY CONTINUE WELL INTO THE NIGHT IN THESE AREAS...WITH
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE.
 
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.
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.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Dec 14, 3:24 PM CST, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
320 PM CST MON DEC 14 1992

IR LOOP SHOWING BAND OF ENHANCED CLDINESS ASSOC WITH ERN TX
CONVXTN RECURVING NWWD INTO SERN OK. PROFLRS ACRS ERN OK
...WRN AR...AND WRN MO CTN TO SHOW 40-45 KTS OF H8 INFLO INTO
THE RGN.  DIFFLUENT FLOW ALOFT XTNDD FRM CTNL TX INTO ERN
MO...ACRS ERN OK...WHCH SHULD ENHANCE UVVS ASSOCIATED WITH
IMPULSES ROTATING THRU THE FLOW ALOFT.  HVY RAINS LK LIKE A
SURE BET OVR SERN PTNS OF FA THRU TONIGHT.

SFC LO LOCATED SW OF TUL HAS MOVED LTL SINCE 12Z DUE TO
STAGNANT UPR LVL FLOW. FRNTL MVMNT SLOER THAN INDICATED BY
NGM AND WITH CONVXTN TRAINING NWD ALNG BNDRY AM HESISTANT TO
DROP HVY RAIN POTENTIAL FOR FA THRU TONIGHT.  WL CTN FFA THRU
TONIGHT AND EXTND INTO MRNG HRS MONDAY IN THE SE.

FOR THE RMNDR OF FCST...AVN EJECTS UPR SYSTEM TOO FAST.  PREFER
SLOER AND MORE SRN SCENARIOS DEPICTED BY NGM/ETA/LFM SINCE
UPR RDG OVR ERN US WL KEEP LONGWAVE TROF FRM MVNG TOO FAR EAST
TOO FAST.  THCKNS VALUES SUPPORT CHC OF SLEET OR SNOW OVR XTRM...
NRN OK BY TMRW AFTN...WHCH IS IN LINE WITH ONGOING FCST.

GUID TEMPS LK RSNBL THOU FPC LKS A LTL PESSIMISTIC IN 3RD
PD.  CLDS FRM NXT SYSTEM DVING OUT OF GRT BASIN AND W-SW
SFC FLOW WL KEEP MINS FRM DIPPING TOO LOW.  WL UNDERCUT
SLIGHTLY IN 4TH PD DUE LO LVL CAA.

PRELIM NUMBRS:

TUL 36/44/35/41 7423   MLC 37/45/35/44 +522
BVO 34/42/32/38 5323   IDB 44/47/37/49 +732

.OK...FFA TONIGHT ZNS 27>29...31>34 AND 40.
      FFA TUESDAY MRNG ZNS 34 AND 40.

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.