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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 9, 1993McIntosh County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1993, 11:54 AM CDT for McIntosh County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 1993, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1993, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties McIntosh County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 385 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 091654
FFWTUL
OKC091-111-092000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1154 AM CDT SUN MAY 9 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...MCINTOSH COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...OKMULGEE COUNTY
 
FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED FOR OKMULGEE AND MCINTOSH
COUNTIES. MODERATE TO OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAINS PERSIST ACROSS THESE
COUNTIES LATE THIS MORNING. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 HOURS OF RAIN IS FORECAST
WHICH WILL BRING ANOTHER 1/2 INCH TO LOCALLY 1 INCH OF RAIN TO THIS
AREA. THIS RAINFALL WILL RUNOFF AND CAUSE A CONTINUED FLOOD THREAT
THROUGH MID AFTERNOON.
 
 
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
VREHICLE 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 May 9, 10:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 10:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1015 AM CDT SUN MAY 9 1993

AM RUNNING BEHIND SO ZNS MAY BE A LTL LATE. IR IMGRY SHOWING TOPS BEGINNING
TO WARM ACROSS AREA SO HVY RAINS SHUD SUBSIDE A LTL. SQUALL LINE HAS
MOVED INTO EXTREME E ZNS AND SHUD MOVE IN OUT OF OK WITHIN HR. 90 KNT +
UPR JET PROGGED INTO TO LIFT INTO S PLNS TONIGHT SO WL CONT TO WITH
FFA TONIGHT. HVIEST RAIN MAY OCCUR OVR SE OK AS OUTFLOW IN S0 OK.
FOR UPDATE WL ADJUST TEMPS THIS AFTN AND INCREASE POP A LTL IN E.

...10...

.OK...FFA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ZNS 026>034-40.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 10:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1004 AM CDT SUN MAY 09 1993

TIME (CDT)      COUNTY       EVENT

825 AM          PITTSBURG    TREES UPROOTED AND ROOF DAMAGE IN
                             HAILEYVILLE

845 AM          PITTSBURG    POWERLINE BLOWN DOWN 3 MILES NORTHEAST
                             OF PITTSBURG.

Local storm report, May 9, 10:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1006 AM CDT SUN MAY 09 1993

TIME (CDT)      COUNTY       EVENT

850 AM          MCINTISH     BARN DAMAGED 6 MILES NORTH OF EUFALA

Local storm report, May 9, 10:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1006 AM CDT SUN MAY 09 1993

TIME (CDT)      COUNTY       EVENT

850 AM          MCINTISH     BARN DAMAGED 6 MILES NORTH OF EUFALA

Local storm report, May 9, 11:22 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1121 AM CDT SUN MAY 09 1993

TIME (CDT)      COUNTY       EVENT

929 AM          LATIMER      LARGE TREE BRANCHES DOWN 2 MILES SOUTH
                             OF WILBURTON

Local storm report, May 9, 11:27 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1127 AM CDT SUN MAY 09 1993

TIME (CDT)      COUNTY       EVENT

930 AM          OKMULGEE     HIGHWAY 16 SOUTH OF BEGGS CLOSED DUE TO
                             HIGH WATER

1000 AM         TULSA        STREET FLOODING IN TULSA...31ST AND YALE
                             CLOSED

1100 AM         PAWNEE       HIGHWAY 18 SOUTH OF CIMMARON TURNPIKE REMAINS
                             CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER

Local storm report, May 9, 11:33 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1127 AM CDT SUN MAY 09 1993

TIME (CDT)      COUNTY       EVENT

930 AM          OKMULGEE     HIGHWAY 16 SOUTH OF BEGGS CLOSED DUE TO
                             HIGH WATER

1000 AM         TULSA        STREET FLOODING IN TULSA...31ST AND YALE
                             CLOSED

1100 AM         PAWNEE       HIGHWAY 18 SOUTH OF CIMMARON TURNPIKE REMAINS
                             CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Mayes	5 hr
May 8, 8:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Okmulgee, Wagoner	5 hr
May 9, 12:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Mayes	3 hr
May 9, 1:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	4 hr
May 9, 1:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware	4 hr
May 9, 1:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	4 hr
May 9, 2:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh	3 hr
May 9, 6:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	5 hr
May 9, 6:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa, Washington	5 hr
May 9, 8:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Wagoner	6 hr
May 9, 8:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Muskogee	6 hr
May 9, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer	60 min
May 9, 8:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	53 min
May 9, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	54 min
May 9, 9:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	44 min
May 9, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee	6 hr
May 9, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	6 hr
May 9, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Okmulgee	6 hr
May 9, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	6 hr
May 9, 2:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	6 hr

Nearby

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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.