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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1997, 7:48 PM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee 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
- Jul 17, 1997, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1997, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1936 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 180049 FFWTUL OKC113-117-180645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 748 PM CDT THU JUL 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY...WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY AT 7 40 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF OSAGE AND PAWNEE. HEAVY RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS WILL ADD TO THE ALREADY FLOODED CONDITIONS. SEVERAL LOCATIONS ALONG SH18 ARE ALREADY CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. RAINFALL ESTIMATES NEAR 14 INCHES COVER AN AREA WEST OF SHIDLER. SALT CREEK WILL CARRY MUCH OF THIS WATER SOUTHWARD THROUGH FAIRFAX SOUTHWARD INTO THE ARKANSAS RIVER. RESIDENTS ALONG SALT CREEK AND ANY FLOOD PRONE AREAS FROM SHIDLER TO RALSTON SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO SAFETY AS SOON AS HIGH WATER APPROACH. THIS STORM SYSTEM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST...AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE. SERIOUS FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN THE WARNED AREAS. ALL RESIDENTS OF WESTERN OSAGE AND WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTIES SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER...AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY! 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 38 min |
| Jul 17, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 48 min |
| Jul 17, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 49 min |
| Jul 17, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 12:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 4 hr |
| Jul 18, 7:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 3 hr |
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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.