Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1995, 5:07 AM CDT for Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 5:07 AM CDT (10:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pawnee County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 2769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 291009 FFWTUL OKC117-291300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 507 AM CDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA DURING THE NIGHT. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY MAINLY TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF PAWNEE. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THROUGH SUNRISE THIS MORNING AND MAY PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES. RAPID RUNOFF FROM THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE VWATER 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 29, 4:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 4:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 400 AM CDT THU JUN 29 1995 88D CONTS TO SHOW SCT/NUM STRMS ACROSS N CENT OK/SE KS IN VCNTY OF OUTFLOW BDRY OVR EXTREME N OK. AMS QUITE UNSTABLE WITH ADAP LIS -4 TO -6 AT 08Z. EXPECT SCT STRMS TO DEVELOP DURING DAY ALONG BDRY TDY MAINLY ACROSS N AND CENT ZNS. ALTHO MDLS NOT HANDLING INDIVIDUAL FEATURES TOO WELL...THEY ARE DEPICTING RIPPLES IN WK ZNL FLOW. THIS COMBINED WITH OROGRAPHICS AND WK MCON SHUD AID IN DEVELOPING STRM ACROSS REMAINDER OF FA AS WELL. WL KEEP POPS IN THE 30-40 PCT RANGE TDY. FWC TEMPS APR REASONABLE. FNT EXPECTED TO SAG S TONIGHT AND FRI (MUCH IN LINE WITH AVN) WITH STRONG UPSLOPE PROGGED W OF FA. UPR RDG BEGINNING TO BUILD ACROSS TX BUT STILL WL HV TO CONT IMPUSLES FROM WK UPR TROF OUT W. WL CONT CHC POPS ACROSS AREA WITH HIGHEST POPS ACROSS S. TEMPS WL BE TRICKY AS WELL. WL ACCEPT FWC TEMPS WITH SOME MINOR TWEAKS. TUL 086/070 083/063 083 4432 FSM 090/068 085/065 085 3432 MLC 090/068 085/064 085 4442 BVO 086/066 081/060 XXX 4432 FYV 087/067 081/060 XXX 3432 IDB 092/069 088/066 XXX 3342 BYV 087/064 082/061 XXX 3432 ...10... .TUL...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 26 min |
| Jun 29, 6:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 7:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 8:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 115 min |
| Jun 29, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Jun 29, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 46 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.