Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1995, 11:39 PM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1995, 1:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 3862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 090440 FFWTUL OKC113-117-090800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1139 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTY...PAWNEE COUNTY AT 1138 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING MOVING VERY SLOWLY ACROSS PAWNEE AND SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTIES. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED...AND WILL PRODUCE FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS LIKELY OR HAS BEENl 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.
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 8, 9:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 9:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 OUTFLOW BNDRY HAS CONTD MOVG SWRD ACRS AREA THIS EVNG AND HAS NOW BCM NEARLY STNRY ACRS FA FRM NEAR FORT SMITH TO NORTH OF MLC. RW/TRW CONTG VCNTY OF BNDRY FRM E-CNTL OK INTO NW AR...BUT GENRL TREND HAS SEEN AVTVTY WEAKENING. FOCUS FOR FA NOW TURNING TO THE WEST WHERE COMPLEX OF STMS MOVG FRM NW OK INTO N-CNTL OK. STMS SHOWING MORE OF AN E-ENE MVMNT TWRD NRNMOST ZNS...SO FFA ACRS NRN ZNS LOOKS GOOD AND WL LEAVE IN PLACE AS SERLY SFC WNDS PROVIDE GOOD INFLOW INTO STMS AS THEY CONT TWRD AREA. WL LV HIGHEST POPS ACRS THE NORTH TAPERING OFF TWRD THE SOUTH. WL ADJST THE TEMPS AND WNDS A LTL BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS...OTHRWS PREV FCST LOOKS FINE. ...04... .TUL...FFA TONIGHT ZNS 54>58.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
OKZ054>061-064-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 553 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 581 CANCELLED NORTHWEST OF I-44 IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH AND EAST...THE AIR OVER NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 581 HAS BECOME COOLER AND MUCH MORE STABLE. THEREFORE...THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THOSE AREAS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF INTERSTATE 44. COUNTIES CANCELLED FROM THE WATCH INCLUDE...OSAGE...PAWNEE... WASHINGTON...NOWATA...CRAIG...AND OTTAWA. SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF CREEK...TULSA...AND ROGERS COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE IN THE WATCH AREA ...ALTHOUGH NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THOSE COUNTIES ARE NOT LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE ANY SEVERE WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
OKZ054>061-064-082330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 553 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 581 CANCELLED NORTHWEST OF I-44 IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH AND EAST...THE AIR OVER NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 581 HAS BECOME COOLER AND MUCH MORE STABLE. THEREFORE...THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THOSE AREAS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF INTERSTATE 44. COUNTIES CANCELLED FROM THE WATCH INCLUDE...OSAGE...PAWNEE... WASHINGTON...NOWATA...CRAIG...AND OTTAWA. SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF CREEK...TULSA...AND ROGERS COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE IN THE WATCH AREA ...ALTHOUGH NORTHWEST PORpTIONS OF THOSE COUNTIES ARE NOT LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE ANY SEVERE WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 9:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
OKZ054-059-090315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 942 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... AT 935 PM...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY AND WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY SOON AFTER 10 PM. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FOR THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. ~<>@:*6WWUS N 10 OVC 20.WWUS\ 7q4WSUS|Z 0WUUS t%7WWUS $WWUS t6WWUS WWUSV 0XWSUS "WWUS~ !=`WWUS H`WWUSt 6WWUS( #6WWUSP |`WWUS qWWUSl ,3U^WSUS Hf6WWUS8 4-b6WWUS A`WWUS Z |WUUS d^<>@:@:zqWWUS ,NCH 06/08WWUSB86WWUS f[6WWUS `RWUUSX pWUUS dlf6WWUSB XoWUUSf uMn6WWUS AWWUS> 0o6WWUS c''WWUS HtWWUS Pc<6WWUS hDf6WWUS XtWWUS pWUUS f6WWUS8
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 9:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
OKZ054-059-090315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 942 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA... AT 935 PM...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY AND WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY SOON AFTER 10 PM. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FOR THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 7:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 8:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 9:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 10:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 1:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 65 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.