Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Nov 6, 1996, 8:56 PM CST for Sebastian County, Arkansas; LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 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
- Nov 6, 1996, 8:56 PM CST (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 070305 FFWTUL ARC015-033-087-143-131-OKC135-061-077-079-070900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 856 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ...CARROLL COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY ...WASHINGTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS ...SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...HASKELL COUNTY...LATIMER COUNTY...LE FLORE COUNTY RAINFALL WAS INCREASING ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE LATEST DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SUGGEST THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN WILL FALL OVER MUCH OF THE WARNED AREA BY LATE TONIGHT. THIS RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN RAPID RISES ON RIVERS...CREEKS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES AND CAUSE FLOODING OF SOME CITY STREETS AND LOW-LYING 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. 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 VEHICLE GETS CAUGHT IN RISING WATER...ABANDONED IT QUICKLY. THEN MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 6:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 8:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 6 hr |
| Nov 6, 10:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton | 5 hr |
| Nov 7, 2:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 3 hr |
| Nov 7, 2:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 6:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Mayes | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 36 min |
| Nov 6, 8:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer | 6 hr |
| Nov 6, 9:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 47 min |
| Nov 7, 2:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.