Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 1997, 9:48 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 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
- May 7, 1997, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 080251 FFWTUL OKC113-080745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 948 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...SOUTHWESTERN OSAGE COUNTY AT 948 PM...RADAR INDICATED CLOSE TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAD FALLEN OVER RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN OSAGE COUNTY TO THE WEST OF FAIRFAX. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DUMP HEAVY RAINS IN THIS AREA DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. CREEKS IN AREAS WEST OF FAIRFAX AND SOUTH OF BURBANK WILL RAPIDLY RISE AND OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS AND FLOOD COUNTY ROADS IN THIS AREA. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRACK SOUTHEAST INTO AREAS DOWN THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY INTO THE HOMINY AREA AFTER 11PM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 54 min |
| May 7, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 66 min |
| May 7, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 60 min |
| May 7, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 51 min |
| May 7, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 45 min |
| May 7, 10:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 4 hr |
| May 7, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 48 min |
| May 7, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 68 min |
| May 8, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 42 min |
| May 8, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 52 min |
| May 8, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 49 min |
| May 8, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 51 min |
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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.