Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1995, 2:46 AM CDT for Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 060747 FFWTUL OKC147-061030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 246 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 245 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN AN AREA BETWEEN OCHELATA AND RAMONA. ADDITIONAL STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE FROM OSAGE COUNTY ACROSS SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY THROUGH 400 AM. 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...ABANDONED IT QUICKLY. THEN MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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 Jun 5, 8:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 8:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute before
FPUS3 KTUL 060145 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 845 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 00Z ANALYS INDCTS VERY UNSTBL AMS OVR EOK WITH H5 TEMPS OF -12 AT OUN. NEW AREA OF TSTMS HAS DVLPD OVR NCNTL OK MOVG EWD. SO WL HV TO RAISE POPS FOR NRN PTNS OF FA. SRN PTNS OF FA LUK FAVORABLE FOR TSTMS ALSO AS SATL PICS INDCT ANOTHER VORT MAX ROTATING ARND ON THE HEELS OF THE CONVCTV VORT MAX WHICH HAD SET OFF THE TSTMS IN SERN OK/NWRN AR THIS AFTN. BLV TSTMS WL MOV FAST ENUF TO AVOID PROLONGED RAINFALL. WL NOT PLAN ON A FFA BUT MAY CHG MY MIND AT LAST MIN. ..11.. .TUL...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1035 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM 1 S MULDROW OK 3/4 INCH HAIL
06/05/95 SEQUOYAH WIND DAMAGE
TREES BLOWN DOWN.
0550 PM MOUNTAINBURG AR WIND DAMAGE
06/05/95 CRAWFORD SEVERAL LARGE TREE
LIMBS BLOWN DOWN.
0600 PM PANAMA OK STREET FLOODING.
06/05/95 LE FLORE
0610 PM 5 SE STILWELL OK WIND GUST TO 60 MPH.
06/05/95 ADAIR
0620 PM SILOAM SPRINGS AR 0.88 INCH HAIL.
06/05/95 BENTON
0630 PM WESTVILLE OK 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/95 ADAIR WIND DAMAGE
TREES BLOWN DOWN.
0715 PM GREEN FOREST AR 0.75 INCH HAIL.
06/05/95 CARROLL
0800 PM GREEN FOREST AR HIGHWAY 62 AND
06/05/95 CARROLL NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED.
0805 PM GREEN FOREST AR 3/4 INCH HAIL.
06/05/95 CARROLLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 8:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 1:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 8:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 51 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.