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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK

December 15, 1992Adair County, Delaware County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Dec 15, 1992, 12:00 AM CST for Adair County, Delaware County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 15, 1992, 12:00 AM CST (06:00 UTC)
Expired: Dec 15, 1992, 7:00 AM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Adair County, OK, Delaware County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 326 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 329 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 150559
FFWTUL
OKC001-021-091-101-041-061-077-121-151300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
MIDNIGHT CST TUE DEC 15 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...ADAIR COUNTY...CHEROKEE COUNTY...MCINTOSH COUNTY
   ...MUSKOGEE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...DELAWARE COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...HASKELL COUNTY...LATIMER COUNTY...PITTSBURG COUNTY
 
RAIN CONTINUES IN THE WARNED AREA AND SEVERAL ROADS ARE REPORTED TO BE
CLOSED.
 
THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS AND RUNOFF
FROM THE RAIN MAY STILL CAUSE RISES ON CREEKS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES.
 
 
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 SAFELY.  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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 14, 7:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg	5 hr
Dec 14, 8:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	5 hr
Dec 14, 8:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	5 hr
Dec 14, 8:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers	73 min
Dec 15, 12:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee	7 hr
Dec 15, 12:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	7 hr
Dec 15, 7:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Muskogee	5 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.