Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Tulsa, OK

Issued

Sep 13, 1993, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)

Expired

Sep 13, 1993, 11:15 PM CDT

In force

5 hr

Issued by

NWS Tulsa, OK

Area

Whole counties

County Okfuskee County, OK

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 132313
FFWTUL
OKC107-140415-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
610 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...OKFUSKEE COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES ACROSS OKFUSKEE COUNTY. AT 605 PM...NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THNDERSTORMS
ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA SPREADING INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN OKFUSKEE COUNTY WERE APPROXIATELY 1 INCH DURING THE
PAST HOUR WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
 
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...ABANDONED2 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 Sep 13, 2:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
225 PM CDT MON SEP 13 1993

LRG AREA OF PCP CONTINUED OVER MOST OF FA. BATCH OF RW/TRW DVLPED
ALONG H3 JET WELL AHEAD OF FNT FROM CNU TO NORTH OF OKC. GUD MOIST
CONV AHEAD OF FNT SO STORMS SHUD CONT TO DEVLP REST OF THE
AFTERNOON. MORN MODELS WERE FASTER IN LIFTING OUT UPPER SYS AND
MOVING FNT. FNT MADE GUD PROGRESS THIS MORN...MOVNG ABT 30 KNTS
BETWEEN GCK-GAG. FNT HAS SLOWED SOME THIS AFTERNOON WITH GUSTY S
WNDS AHEAD OF FNT NOT VEERING MUCH. MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT IN
MOVING FNT INTO SE OK BY MORN. REMNANTS OF LIDIA WILL MOVE INTO NE
TX FAR SE OK ALONG WITH FNT. WILL GO ALONG WITH NMC QPF EST BUT
FEEL AREA OF 4+ INCHES CUD EXTND INTO EC-SE OK. NEARLY 4 INCHES OF
RAIN WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN OSAGE CNTY FROM THIS MORNINGS RAINS
AND FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE COMMON OVER THE AREA BEFORE HVY PCP
FROM THE FRONT ENTERS THE AREA. THREAT FOR FF NOT AS HI AS
OTHERWISE WUD BE SINCE ITS BEEN FAIRLY DRY...BUT FEEL FFA IS NEEDED
DU TO PSBL ENHANCMENT BY LIDIA AND HISTORY OF PAST HVY PCP EVENTS.

FRONT WILL PROB ENTER FA BY 6PM WITH WNDSHFT THRU TUL ARND
9PM...AND THRU MLC ARND MID.  FNT WILL END CHC FOR HVY RAIN BUT R-L
WILL LINGER INTO TUE MORN. WILL FOLLOW NGM TMPS/POPS FAIRLY CLOSELY
THRU FCST.

/13
TUL  051/055 045/070 051 +400
MLC  061/065 045/070 049 +61-
BVO  050/053 042/070 XXX +300
IDB  072/074 053/070 XXX ++32

.OK...FFA ZNS 26>30 xREST OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVE.
      FFA ZNS 31>34-40 TONIGHT.

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993

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