Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 1996, 4:27 AM CDT for Osage County, Rogers County, Tulsa 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
- Sep 26, 1996, 4:27 AM CDT (09:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1996, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osage County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 260927 FFWTUL OKC041-097-113-131-143-261230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 427 AM CDT THU SEP 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...DELAWARE COUNTY...MAYES COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY ...ROGERS COUNTY...NORTHERN TULSA COUNTY AT 422 AM...RADAR ESTIMATES 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA SINCE 100 AM. IN DELAWARE COUNTY...HIGHWAY 59 4 MILES NORTH OF JAY HAS 8 INCHES OF WATER OVER THE ROAD. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AND MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER INCH OR MORE OF RAIN BEFORE 700 AM. 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 VEHICLjE GETS CAUGHT IN RISING WATER...ABANDONED IT QUICKLY. THEN MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. &
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 Sep 26, 3:49 AM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 3:49 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
350 AM CDT THU SEP 26 1996
MCS CONTINUES OVR NRN OKLA EARLY THIS MORN...AND SOME SVR WX AND
HEAVY RAINS HAVE ALRDY OCCURRED IN AREAS N OF TUL. MARGINAL INSTBY
HAS KEPT SVR WEATHER LIMITED OVR FA SO FAR DESPITE IMPRESSIVE SHEAR
PROFILE. COLD FRONT AT 08Z WAS ON THE MOVE ACRS SE KS AND NORTHERN
OKLA.
XPCT COLD FRONT TO CONT MOVG SEWD THIS MORN BEFORE SLOWING SE OF TUL
BY THIS AFTN IN RESPONSE TO POWERFUL SHORTWV MOVG SEWD THRU ROCKIES.
WITH STG LO LVL JET CONTG AHD OF CURRENT ACTIVITY THIS MORN...BELIEVE
THERE IS SOME THREAT FOR EXCESSIVE RAINS ACRS NW ARK AND SE OK THRU
THIS EVE. WL ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR AREAS S AND E OF TUL WHERE
THE BIGGEST THREAT SHUD BE BY LATER THIS MORN.
THE MAIN SVR WX THREAT TDA SHUD BE ACRS SE OK NEAR THE SPC MODT RISK.
THE AIRMASS SHUD BE MOST UNSTABLE THIS AREA AND WIND PROFILE PROGD TO
BE FAVBL FOR LONG LIVED STORMS.
COLD FRONT SHUD START MOVG AGAIN THIS EVE AND SHUD BE ACRS EXTRM SE
OK BY 12Z FRI. HI POPS TO CONT BEHIND THE FRONT TONITE/FRI AS
ISENTROPIC LIFT OF RICH LO LVL MSTR CONTS. PCPN TO TAPER OFF FROM
THE NW ON FRI AFTN AS COLDER/DRIER AIR DEEPENS. FRI WL BE A RATHER
CHILLY DAY ACRS NRN ZONES AS MO CLDY SKIES AND AREAS OF RAIN KEEPS
TEMPS IN 50S FOR MAXES.
TUL 70/50/59/45 +741 MLC 79/55/62/46 9863
BVO 66/47/56/44 +631 IDB 83/62/72/52 8873
FYV 77/55/59/46 ++63 FSM 78/61/66/49 9+63
/9
.TUL...
OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THIS EVENING/TONIGHT
ZONES 62 63 65>77.
AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT ZONES 1 2 10 11 19 29.In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 26, 1:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
158 AM CDT THU SEP 26 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 AM 6 W MARAMEC OK 60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/26/96 PAWNEE
0150 AM 6 W MARAMEC OK .88 INCH HAIL
09/26/96 PAWNEEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 55 min |
| Sep 26, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 41 min |
| Sep 26, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| Sep 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 55 min |
| Sep 26, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 60 min |
| Sep 26, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 41 min |
| Sep 26, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 39 min |
| Sep 26, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 50 min |
| Sep 26, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 11:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
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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.