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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 26, 1996Washington County, Arkansas; Adair County, Oklahoma

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -123 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSABenton3 hr
Sep 26, 9:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSABenton3 hr
Sep 26, 10:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACarroll, Madison3 hr
Sep 26, 11:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAWashington3 hr
Sep 26, 12:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACrawford, Sebastian3 hr
Sep 26, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WarningTSASebastian29 min
Sep 25, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage55 min
Sep 26, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington41 min
Sep 26, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage46 min
Sep 26, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSANowata55 min
Sep 26, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig60 min
Sep 26, 1:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOttawa41 min
Sep 26, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPawnee39 min
Sep 26, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPawnee50 min
Sep 26, 4:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAOsage, Rogers, Tulsa3 hr
Sep 26, 4:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSADelaware, Mayes3 hr
Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACherokee, Wagoner3 hr
Sep 26, 6:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSATulsa3 hr
Sep 26, 8:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACherokee, Muskogee3 hr
Sep 26, 9:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okmulgee3 hr
Sep 26, 9:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACherokee3 hr
Sep 26, 10:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah3 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.