Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 1996, 2:56 AM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1996, 2:56 AM CDT (07:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1996, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Latimer County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 220757 FFWTUL OKC077-221100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 256 AM CDT WED MAY 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN LATIMER COUNTY WEATHER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN LATIMER COUNTY BETWEEN HIGGENS AND BENGAL. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT HOUR FROM CONTINUED HEAVY RAIN IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS RAINFALL IS SUFFICIENT TO TRIGGER FLOODING. 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. 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 21, 9:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 9:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 905 PM CDT TUE MAY 21 1996 STNRY FNT OVR NRN TX/SE OK/CTRL AR HAS FOCUSED SOME TRW OVR FAR NRN TX AND OVR AR. MDLS...ESP ETA...SUGGESTS DVLPG LLJ/LLVL MOISTR RETURN OVR TX PNDL/WRN OK TNGT. SOME INGRED APPEAR TO COME TOGTHR FOR LT NGT CONVCTN/PSBL MCS W OR SW OF FCST AREA. ETA MDL SHOWS 850 MB THETA-E RDG ALNG RED RIVER VLY...KPS IT OVR FAR SRN OK/N AND NW TX THRU MDNGT THEN LIFTS NWD ACRS CTRL AND NW OK TWRD DAWN. ALOFT...500 MB S/W RDG FCST TO MOVE OVR KS/OK TNGT. WK 700 MB S/W TROF/VORT MAX OVR WRN OK/NW TX WL MOVE E OF AREA LT TNGT...MDLS SHOW STGR 700 MB S/W TROF APRCHG SRN HI PLAINS TWRD DAWN. IF MCS DVLPMNT OCCURS NXT SVRL HRS...IT WL BE OVR NRN TX/XTRM SRN OK WHICH WUD SLIDE SE AND NOT AFFECT FCST AREA. IF THE CRNT NRN TX CNVCTN DOESNT BLOCK MOISTR RETURN...AND SUFF MOISTR RETURN OCCURS FOR MCS DVLPMNT OVR TX PNDL/FAR WRN OK...SUCH DVLPMNT WUD LKLY BE AFTR MDNGT AND WUD ONLY THREATEN SRN PART OF FCST AREA PROB TWRD DAWN. ANY ORGANIZED DVLPMNT FURTHR N ACRS WRN KS WHCH CUD AFFCT REST OF FCST AREA APPRS UNLKLY ATTM GIVEN FURTHR S PLACEMENT OF LLVL THETA-E RDG MOST OF NGT. WL FOLLOW CRNT FCST KEEPING 20 POPS FOR TRW MAINLY ALNG AND S OF TUL TO FSM LN...MAY WORD SOMETHING LIKE AFTR 3AM OR TWRD DAWN MOST ZNS. LOW CLDNSS OVR MUCH OF FCST AREA DCRSG A LTL...BUT MAY HOLD TOGETHER IN ISENTRPC LIFT N OF SFC/850 MB FNTL BNDRY. DWPTS VARY FROM MID/UPR 50S FAR N TO LWR 70S S. MAY MAKE MINOR ADJSTMNTS TO TEMP/WIND FCST TNGT IN SOME ZNS BASED ON LATEST INFORMATION...NO MAJOR CHGS ANTICIPATED. NO CHGS TO LTR PDS...STG CAP MOVES IN TMRW/TMRW NGT...WITH ANY MCS DVLPMNT TMRW NGT LKLY TO REMAIN WELL N OF FCST AREA. MED RNG MDLS STILL SUGGEST GOOD POTNTL FOR HI PLAINS CONVCTN...BUT CHCS OF RAIN FOR FCST AREA NOT GREAT GIVEN STG CAP XPCTD AND MID LVL COOLG HELD W OF SRN PLAINS AS UPR LOW BCMS ANCHORED OVR SWRN STATfES. NEW ECMWF SHOWS SAME THING...WITH UPR SYS PSBLY BEING KICKED OUT OVR PLAINS SUN NGT/MON BY NEXT S/W TO APRCH PACFC NW STATES. WE'LL SEE... PW .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 2:25 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
OKZ073-075-076-220830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 225 AM CDT WED MAY 22 1996 ...VERY HEAVY RAINS ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS MORNING. MOST OF THE HEAVY RAINS AT 220 AM WERE OCCURRING ACROSS EASTERN PITTSBURG...SOUTHERN LATIMER...AND SOUTHERLE FLORE COUNTIES. SOME HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. AREAS AROUND HAILEYVILLE...BENGAL...WISTER... HIGGINS AND TALIHINA MAY EXPERIENCE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS THROUGH 400 AM. SOME MINOR FLOODING OF ROADWAYS MAY ALSO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY NEAR ^HIGHWAYS 2 AND 63 SOUTH OF WILBURTON. STAY TUNED TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 46 min |
| May 22, 4:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.