Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1998, 12:55 AM CDT for Adair County, Cherokee 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
- Jun 9, 1998, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1998, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 525 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 624 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUL 090555 FFWTUL OKC001-021-090845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1255 AM CDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ADAIR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 345 AM CDT * AT 1252 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CHEROKEE AND ADAIR COUNTIES... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DUMPED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN CHEROKEE AND ADAIR COUNTIES...WITH RADAR ESTIMATES OF OVER TWO INCHES SINCE AROUND 1130 PM. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL OCCUR IN THE COOKSON... LYONS...BUNCH AND STILWELL AREAS THROUGH 200 AM. THIS RAIN MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING AND RISES ON SMALL STREAMS. CAMPERS NEAR CHEROKEE LANDING STATE PARK ARE URGED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLOODING.
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 Jun 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 090156 AFDTUL EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 900 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 JUST SENT ANOTHER QUICK UPDATE TO COVER NEW TORNADO WATCH. CONT TO WATCH TORNADIC SUPERCELL MOVG ACRS PITTBURG...MCINTOSH AND HASKELL COUNTIES...AS WELL AS OTHER TSTMS N OF OKC AND OVER SC KS. SOUTHERN SUPERCELL IN AXIS OF BEST INSTABILITY WITH LAPS CAPES AOA 3000 J/KG. STORMS SHUD CONT NEXT FEW HOURS. WL ISSUE AT LEAST ONE MORE UPDATED ZFP/RDF PACKAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT. SMITH .TUL... OK...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 531 MOST OF SE OK. AR...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 8, 8:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
842 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM HANNA OK .75 INCH HAIL
06/08/98 MCINTOSHLocal storm report, Jun 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
900 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0856 PM 4 S INDIANOLA OK TORNADO
06/08/98 PITTSBURG REPORTED BY CIVIL DEFENSE
SPOTTERSLocal storm report, Jun 8, 10:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1000 PM CDT MON JUN 08 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0950 PM RUSSELLVILLE OK TORNADO
06/08/98 PITTSBURG REPORTED BY PITTSBURG
COUNTY EOCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 70 min |
| Jun 8, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 50 min |
| Jun 8, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 12:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 47 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.