Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1994, 8:36 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1994, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1994, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County LeFlore County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 180137 FFWTUL OKC079-180345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 836 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN LE FLORE COUNTY A SLOW MOVING BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS LINGERED ACROSS SOUTHERN LEFLORE COUNTY ROUGHLY ALONG AN AXIS FROM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF TALIHINA TO MUSE. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE BEEN INDICATED SINCE 700 PM. LOW LYING AREAS ALONG HIGHWAY 63 EAST OF MUSE ARE LIKELY TO BE FLOODED. 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. l
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 Jul 17, 3:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 3:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 172037
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN OKLAHOMA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
33O PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994
OUTFLOW BNDRY EVIDENT OVR SERN OK THIS MRNG HAS GRAD WASHED OUT
DURING THE DAY AS LLVL WNDS HV RETURNED TO SWLY ACRS THE AREA.
AMS IN THE XTRM SE STILL VERY UNSTBL...AND ALTHO NO SIG CU FIELD
VSBL ON SATL...STILL XPCT TO SEE ISOLD/WDLY SCTD TRW DVLP IN THE
SE THIS EVNG. OVR THE NRN PART OF FA FOR TNGT...STILL SOME POTNTL
FOR TSTM DVLPMNT WELL OFF TO THE NW ONCE AGN WITH STMS MOVG SEWRD
AND PSBLY AFFECTING AREA LATE TNGT...ALTHO FLOW ALFT A LTL WKR.
WL MENTION POPS ONLY IN THE 20-30 PCT RANGE. WL THEN SHOOT FOR
A DRY FCST MON THRU TUE AS UPR RDG BCMS A LTL BTR ESTABLISHED OVR
THE AREA. TEMPWISE...SEE LTL CHG IN MINS NXT FEW NGTS WITH MAX
TEMPS WRMG SLGTLY.
PRELIM NUMBERS: TUL 74/94/74/95 2111 BVO 71/95/71/96 2111
MLC 73/95/73 96 2111 IDB 71/94/71/95 2111
...04...
.TUL...NONE.In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 17, 5:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 543 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994 TIME (CDT) COUNTY/STATE EVENT 535 PM SEBASTIAN/AR GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN MIDLAND. 6WWUSb +6WWUSj 6WWUSt C6WWUSF 2 WUUSp A?WHPN X 6WWUS U6WWUSL 76WWUS 8L6WWUS2 L6WWUS| o#@o#D2FzJJ6P WUUS p8`WWUS L3U^WSUS 00XWSUS X#6WWUS l4nX WUUS L WUUS 406WWUS8 $66WWUS\ 7`WWUSX +6WWUSj 6WWUSt 76WWUS <q`WWUS 2 WUUSp .bWWUSV 6WWUS & WUUS WUUS 6WWUS (8L6WWUS2 L6WWUS|
Local storm report, Jul 17, 5:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 543 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994 TIME (CDT) COUNTY/STATE EVENT 535 PM SEBASTIAN/AR GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN MIDLAND.
Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
610 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994
TIME (CDT) COUNTY/STATE EVENT
600 PM MADISON/AR DIME SIZE HAIL ON HWY 16 2 MILES WEST
OF PETTIGREW.Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
610 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994
TIME (CDT) COUNTY/STATE EVENT
600 PM MADISON/AR DIME SIZE HAIL ON HWY 16 2 MILES WEST
OF PETTIGREW.Local storm report, Jul 17, 7:58 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
758 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994
TIME (CDT) COUNTY/STATE EVENT
715 PM LEFLORE HIGH WINDS BLEW DOWN LARGE TREE LIMBS
IN HODGENS CAUSING SOME POWER OUTAGES.Local storm report, Jul 17, 8:00 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
758 PM CDT SUN JUL 17 1994
TIME (CDT) COUNTY/STATE EVENT
715 PM LEFLORE HIGH WINDS BLEW DOWN LARGE TREE LIMBS
IN HODGENS CAUSING SOME POWER OUTAGES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 49 min |
| Jul 17, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 48 min |
| Jul 17, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 59 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.