Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1997, 11:09 PM CDT for Creek 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, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1997, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Creek County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 180410 FFWTUL OKC037-180715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1109 PM CDT THU JUL 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN CREEK COUNTY RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS WESTERN CREEK COUNTY FROM OILTON TO DRUMRIGHT TO SHAMROCK BETWEEN 8 AND 11 PM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 2 AM MAINLY IN THE DRUMRIGHT...SHAMROCK AND MILFAY AREAS. THIS RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN 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 PMOVE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 7:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 6 hr |
| 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 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 |
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.