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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 1997, 1:40 AM 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 18, 1997, 1:40 AM CDT (06:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1997, 7:45 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, 6.7 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 180642 FFWTUL OKC113-117-181245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 140 AM CDT FRI JUL 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY...WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY AT 130 AM...FLOODING CONTINUED ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN OSAGE AND WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTIES WHERE MORE THAN 6 INCHES OF RAIN FELL DURING THURSDAY EVENING AND EARLY THIS FRIDAY MORNING. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAINS HAD TAPERED OFF...MODERATE RAIN CONTINUED AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS. MANY ROADS REMAINED CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER OVER WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY. THE WORST FLOODING WAS ALONG THE SALT CREEK IN AND NEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRFAX. MANY PEOPLE IN FAIRFAX AND GREY HORSE HAVE BEEN EVACUATED TO AVOID RISING WATERS. IN WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY...PEOPLE NEAR RALSTON ALONG THE ARKANSAS RIVER WERE BEING ADVISED TO MONITOR THE WATER LEVELS WHERE THE SALT CREEK EMPTIES INTO THE ARKANSAS RIVER. 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 QUIC^KLY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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, 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.