Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1997, 3:07 PM CDT for Okfuskee 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
- Jul 17, 1997, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okfuskee County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 2057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1356 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 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 172009 FFWTUL OKC107-172315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 307 PM CDT THU JUL 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN OKFUSKEE COUNTY AT 3 03 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF WELTY. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS DETECTED...AND AS A RESULT OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PORTION OF OKFUSKEE COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF. THAT PART OF THE COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 62 IN AND AROUND WELTY AND MICAWBER WILL SEE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW-LYING AREA. 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.
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 Jul 17, 11:07 AM CDT, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 11:07 AM CDT, 4 hours before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1105 AM CDT THU JUL 17 1997 WILL NEED TO ISSUE UPDATE AROUND MIDDAY TO CLEAN UP WORDING IN NE OK ZONES. WILL ALSO LIKELY NEED TO KNOCK DOWN TEMPS IN NW ZONES WHERE RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL. AREA OF TSRA/SHRA CONTINUES TO SPIRAL AROUND UPPER-LOW ALONG KS/OK BORDER...AND IS ONLY DRIFTING VERY SLOWLY EAST AND SOUTH THIS MORNING. THIS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN SLOWLY WEAKENING/SHRINKING SO FAR THIS MORNING AND EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE. FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS AREA LOOKS GOOD FOR NOW AS WESTERN PORTIONS OF WATCH AREA HAVE RECEIVED BETWEEN 3 AND 6 INCHES OF RAIN. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS IN THIS AREA COULD CAUSE SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS...ESPECIALLY WITH COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN UPSTREAM ALREADY DRAINING INTO THIS AREA. WILL MAKE FINAL DECISION ON WHETHER TO CONTINUE FFA BASED ON RADAR TRENDS AT TIME OF UPDATE. AS FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION LATER TODAY...IT APPEARS THAT BEST CHANCE WILL BE ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY CURRENTLY SLICING THROUGH ERN OK. AS UPPER-LOW CONTINUES TO DRIFT SOUTHWARD...WOULD EXPECT WRN ZONES TO HAVE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN. CURRENT FORECAST HAS GOOD HANdDLE ON THIS SITUATION. ...19... .TUL... OK...FFA TODAY ZNS 54/59. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 17, 10:31 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1031 AM CDT THU JUL 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 AM 5 SE PONCA CITY OK WATER COVERED COUNTY ROAD
07/17/97 OSAGE EXTENDING FROM 1/2 MILE
EAST OF HWY 60 SOUTHWARD
TOWARDS ARKANSAS RIVER.Local storm report, Jul 17, 10:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1031 AM CDT THU JUL 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 AM 5 SE PONCA CITY OK WATER COVERED COUNTY ROAD
07/17/97 OSAGE EXTENDING FROM 1/2 MILE
EAST OF HWY 60 SOUTHWARD
TOWARDS ARKANSAS RIVER.Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-029-OKZ054>076-181200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT THU JUL 17 1997 A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WAS LOCATED IN NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS SYSTEM SHOWED UP AS A SMALL CIRCULATION CENTER ON SATELLITE IMAGERY...AND CONTINUED TO SUPPORT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS OSAGE AND PAWNEE COUNTIES AT 100 PM. THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A RAIN-COOLED BOUNDARY...CREATED BY THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS OSAGE AND PAWNEE COUNTIES...WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR JAY TO WAGONER TO OKEMAH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN STATIONARY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND ALONG THE RAIN-COOLED BOUNDARY. THE AIRMASS WILL BE VERY UNSTABLE IN MOST AREAS THIS AFTERNOON...AND SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. ALTHOUGH THE EFFECTS OF THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL REMAIN CONFINED TO EASTERN OKLAHOMA...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS MAINLY DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET...WHILE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD LINGER INTO THE NIGHT OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SLOW MOVING...SO IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 4:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 4 hr |
| Jul 17, 6:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 50 min |
| Jul 17, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 47 min |
| Jul 17, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 3:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 4 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 4 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 47 min |
| Jul 17, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 49 min |
| Jul 17, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 54 min |
| Jul 17, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 50 min |
| Jul 17, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 53 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.