Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1993, 4:47 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1993, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Jun 14, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 142007
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
307 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993
SFC FNT AT 19Z LOCATED FROM NW ARK TO S OF OKC TO NR LTS. BEST
CONVERGENCE ALG FRONT IS OVR WRN/CNTRL OK WHERE NLY WIND COMPONENT IS
AIDED BY OUTFLOW FROM TX PH MCS. A FEW TRW HV DVLPD NEAR THE FRONT
IN THE PAST HR OVR ERN OK WITH AID FROM STG HTG AND TEMPS IN UPR 80S.
XPCT THE TRW TO DIE BY SUNSET WITH LOSS OF HTG. WL DECIDE ON EVE POPS
JUST BEFORE ZONE ISSUANCE AFTR LOOKING AT RADAR.
LATER PDS OF FCST A LTL UNCERTAIN WITH THE WK FRONTAL REMNANTS LIFTING
NORTH AND RICH MSTR MOVG BACK INTO ALL OF FA. ISOLD TRW ARE PSBL ABOUT
ANY PD OF FCST THRU WEDS AS STG HEATING MAY ALLOW AFTN DVLPMENT AND
RETREATING BNDRY MAY TRIGGER AN MCS IN KS WHICH CUD TRAK SOUTHEAST.
ONLY SIG SHORTWV TO MOVE CLOSE TO AREA IS SHOWN BY NGM TO MOVE INTO
NORTHEAST KS TUES EVE. LIFT AND PCPN WITH THIS WAVE SHUD REMAIN IN
KS...ALTHO ISOLD TRW MAY BRUSH EXTRM NRN ZNS. AFTR TONITE...HV OPTED
TO LEAVE OUT MENTION OF POPS THRU WEDS WITH H7 AND H5 RIDGING IN PLACE.
MODELS DO NOT SHOW OVRLY WARM MID LVL TEMPS SO ISOLD TRW ARE PSBL BOTH
TUES AND WEDS AFTNS.
WL FOLLOW PERSISTENCE FOR TEMP FCSTS. SHUD BE SOME MID 60S TONITE
IN NRN ZNS WHERE DRY AIR WL MAKE A TEMPORARY ARRIVAL. MOS GUIDANCE
TEMPS AFTR TONITE IN STG AGREEMENT AND WL FOLLOW CLOSELY.
...09...
TUL 69/88/71/89 1111 MLC 69/91/70/91 1111
BVO 66/88/68/90 1111 IDB 69/90/70/90 1111
.OK...NONE.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:41 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
OKZ032-142245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 441 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 ...HEAVY RAINFALL IN WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY... AT 438 PM...RADAR ESTIMATES OF AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN PARTS OF WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY SINCE 330 PM. ALTHOUGH THE STORMS WERE NOT AS INTENSE AS THEY WERE BEFORE 400 PM...THE COVERAGE OF THE STORMS HAS INCREASED AND HEAVY RAINS HAVE PROBABLY OCCURRED OVER MUCH OF WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY SINCE 330 PM. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:41 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
OKZ032-142245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 441 PM CDT MON JUN 14 1993 ...HEAVY RAINFALL IN WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY... AT 438 PM...RADAR ESTIMATES OF AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN PARTS OF WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY SINCE 330 PM. ALTHOUGH THE STORMS WERE NOT AS INTENSE AS THEY WERE BEFORE 400 PM...THE COVERAGE OF THE STORMS HAS INCREASED AND HEAVY RAINS HAVE PROBABLY OCCURRED OVER MUCH OF WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY SINCE 330 PM. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NECESSARY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 67 min |
| Jun 14, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 66 min |
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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.