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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 1996, 8:46 AM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas; Adair 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, 8:46 AM CDT (13:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1996, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 261347 FFWTUL ARC143-OKC001-021-101-261630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 846 AM CDT THU SEP 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHERN ADAIR COUNTY...SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY ...MUSKOGEE COUNTY A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE OCCURRED DURING THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN AN AREA FROM MUSKOGEE TO FAYETTEVILLE THROUGH 10 AM. SOME STREET FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN MUSKOGEE. OTHER FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN TAHLEQUAH...STILWELL...AND FAYETTEVILLE. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 11:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 29 min |
| 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 | Osage, Rogers, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes | 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 | 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 | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Flash 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.