Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 1996, 4:41 AM CDT for Pittsburg 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, 4:41 AM CDT (09:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1996, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pittsburg County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 220942 FFWTUL OKC121-221245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 441 AM CDT WED MAY 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...EASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY WEATHER RADAR IS ESTIMATING TOTAL RAINFALL OF 3 TO 5 INCHES ACROSS FAR EASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY...INCLUDING THE HAILEYVILLE AND HARTSHORNE AREAS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THIS AREA MAY PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN THROUGH 6 AM. THIS RAINFALL IS LIKELY RESULTING IN FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN THE HAILEYVILLE AND HARTSHORNE AREAS. 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 22, 4:15 AM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 4:15 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 415 AM CDT WED MAY 22 1996 TRW CONT TO REDVLP AND MV ACRS SE OK ZNS AND INTO W CNTRL AR THIS MRNG. STRMS ARE MVG JUST S OF BNDRY DEFINED BY GOOD DW PT GRAD AS SEEN IN MESONET DATA. MEANWHILE STNRY FNT REMAINS JUST S OF RED RVR. XPCT MOST TRW ACTVTY TO DIMINISH DURG THE MRNG AND FOR FNT TO MOVE/REDEVLOP TO THE N OF FA THIS AFTN. MDLS SHOW LO LVL MOISUTRE DIMINISHING DURG THE AFTN FROM W TO E. WL GO FOR SKIES TO BCM PTLY CLDY ACRS WRN ZNS BUT KEEP ERN SCTNS MSTLY CLDY ALL DAY THINKING CLRG SHLD BE LATE IN THE DAY. AFT TDY MDLS SUGGEST JUST SOME MID AND HI CLDS MVG ACRS FA FROM TIME TO TIME FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. CAP IS FCST TO STRENGTHEN ACRS ERN OK LATE THIS AFTN AND TAKE HOLD ACRS ENTIRE FA TNGT. SO AFT TDY WL NOT MENTION ANY POPS IN FCST THRU FRI. ATTM LOOKS LIKE BEST CHC WOULD BE IN SERN ZNS WHERE AVN SUGGESTS CAP MIGHT NOT BE AS STRG. SO THERE MAY BE A CHC OF LATE AFTN/ERLY EVE TRW ON FRI BUT PSBLTY IS NOT HI ENOUGH TO MENTION IN ZFP ATTM. GUIDANCE MAXES SEEM REASONABLE ACRS WRN SCTNS TDY BUT MAY BE A BIT HI IN THE E WHERE CLDS ARE XPCTD TO PERSIST LONGER. ALSO MAXES MAY BE A FEW DEGS HI ON THU AS TEMPS HV STRUGGLED TO REACH 90 ACRS FA THUS FAR. W/STRG SLY WNDS FCST TNGT AND THU NGT WL ADD A FEW DEGS TO LOW TEMPS IN MOST PLACES. PRELIM NMBRS TUL 86/72/91 210 FSM 84/66/90 511 MLC 87/71/90 510 BVO 86/72/92 210 FYV 80/68/87 310 IDB 86/64/89 311 BYV 80/65/88 310 07 .TUL... OK...NONE. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 2:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 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, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer | 3 hr |
| May 22, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer | 46 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.