Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995

Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 10, 1995Muskogee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 10, 1995, 2:36 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 1995, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 101937
FFWTUL
OKC101-111-102245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
236 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...WESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN AND EASTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY
 
AT 230 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
FROM PRYOR TO HENRYETTA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA DURING THE PAST HOUR. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THIS AREA FOR THE NEXT 1
TO 2 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 WHIC4H CAN BECOME A KILLER DURING
PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	31 min
Apr 10, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	51 min
Apr 10, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	45 min
Apr 10, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Sequoyah	51 min
Apr 10, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	44 min
Apr 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner	3 hr
Apr 10, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995 Every 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.