Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT for Creek County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Creek County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 2076 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 080346 FFWTUL OKC037-143-080600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1045 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...CREEK COUNTY...TULSA COUNTY RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO 1 INCH IS POSSIBLE. THE GROUND REMAINS SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINS. STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEK BASINS WILL BE LIKELY. 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 zHEAVY RAIN. 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 7, 9:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 9:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 845 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 LN OF SVR STORMS JUST ENTERING WESTERN PART OF FA...EXTENDS WELL SOUTH INTO TX. OUN SOUNDING CONTAINED OVER 2500 J/KG CAPE AND CLOSE TO 200 M/S/S...AND MESONET OBS SHOW SFC DEWPT IN LOWER 70S AHEAD OF STORMS IN E OK. WINDS VEER TO JUST TO THE WEST BEHIND SQUALL LINE WITH DWPTS DROPING INTO UPPER 50S...BUT WINDS OVER WESTERN OK HAVE BACKED TO SOUTH AHEAD OF REAL DRYLINE STILL OVER EASTERN PART OF TX PH. EXPECT SQUALL LN TO CONT TO DVLP EASTWARD INTO FA DURING THE REST OF THE NIGHT AS MID LVL CAA MOVES OVR HIGHER DWPTS. MOST OF NE OK HAS ALREADY RECEIVED FROM 1 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN AND ADDITIONAL RAINS CUD CAUSE MAJOR FLOODING PROBLEMS. MANY RIVERS IN NE OK NEAR OR OVR BANKFULL SO BACKWATER WILL ADD TO FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL. FLASH FLOOD GUIDENCE ALSO LOW OVR REST OF FA...AND FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN MAY FALL ELSEWHERE THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. WILL KEEP FFA GOING AS IN PREV FCST. NO NEW MODEL DATA TO LUK AT...BUT APPEARS LLVL MOIST SHUD SHALLOW OUT QUICKLY MONDAY MORNING FROM WEST TO EAST. BEST CHC FOR LINGERING MORNING TRW IN SE OK AND W ARK. WILL UP POPS TO CLOSE TO 100% OVR ALL OF FA REST OF TONIGHT. PCP SHUD TAPER AFTER MIDNIGHT FROM W TO E...BUT WILL LEAVE SLGT CHC IN WRN ZNS FOR MORNING RW AND 40-50% POPS IN EASTERN ZNS ON MONDAY. /13 .TUL...FFA OKZ054>077-ARZ001-002-010-011-019-0029 TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 7, 7:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
OKZ054-059-060-064-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 715 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE BACK INTO PARTS OF OSAGE...PAWNEE AND CREEK COUNTIES BY 8PM... AT 710PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST THROUGH KAY...NOBLE AND PAYNE COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH AND MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THEY MAY MOVE ~INTO THE BURBANK...FAIRFAX...PAWNEE AND DRUMRIGHT AREAS. PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS BETWEEN 730PM AND 8PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA UNTIL MIDNIGHT.
Local storm report, May 7, 10:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1035 PM CDT SUN MAY 07 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM FORAKER OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST.
05/07/95 OSAGE
0810 PM DRUMRIGHT OK 0.88 INCH HAIL.
05/07/95 CREEK
0830 PM 5 S PAWHUSKA OK WIND DAMAGE
05/07/95 OSAGE TREES BLOWN DOWN.
0850r PM SAND SPRINGS OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST.
05/07/95 TULSA
0905 PM TULSA OK 70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/07/95 TULSA OBSERVED BY NWS METS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes | 68 min |
| May 7, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 68 min |
| May 7, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 48 min |
| May 7, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 40 min |
| May 7, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 51 min |
| May 8, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 64 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.