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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 16, 19974 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1997, 10:23 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 16, 1997, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1997, 2:30 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Haskell County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3446 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 6.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000
TTAA00 KTUL 170323
FFWTUL
ARC131-OKC091-101-061-077-079-121-170730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1023 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

...SEBASTIAN COUNTY

IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

...MCINTOSH COUNTY...MUSKOGEE COUNTY

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

...HASKELL COUNTY...LATIMER COUNTY...LE FLORE COUNTY
...PITTSBURG COUNTY

A LARGE AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AND
MOVE ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. AT 1020 PM...
VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS MOST OF THE WARNED AREA. THE
HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AT LEAST MIDNIGHT BEFORE THE RAIN BEGINS
TO DIMINISH.

RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN AN AREA EXTENDINFROM MCALESTER TO NEAR FORT SMITH. THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE FALLEN ACROSS
NORTHERN PITTSBURG...NORTHERN LATIMER...AND SOUTHERN HASKELL COUNTIES.

AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL IN THE WARNED AREA
TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUNOFF AND CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING.

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
Jun 16, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	2 hr
Jun 16, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	60 min
Jun 16, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	57 min
Jun 16, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	54 min
Jun 16, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	45 min
Jun 16, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	65 min
Jun 16, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	43 min
Jun 16, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	64 min
Jun 16, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	45 min
Jun 16, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	52 min
Jun 16, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	51 min
Jun 16, 8:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	2 hr
Jun 16, 8:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	109 min
Jun 16, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	46 min
Jun 16, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	50 min
Jun 16, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	41 min
Jun 16, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Washington	52 min
Jun 16, 9:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh	48 min
Jun 16, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	61 min
Jun 16, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	44 min
Jun 16, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	41 min
Jun 16, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	40 min
Jun 16, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Wagoner	59 min
Jun 16, 10:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	4 hr
Jun 16, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	48 min
Jun 16, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	62 min
Jun 16, 11:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.