Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2000, 6:50 AM CDT for Creek County, Osage County, Pawnee 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 21, 2000, 6:50 AM CDT (11:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Creek County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:54 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 1958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KTSA 211151
FFWTSA
OKC037-113-117-211500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
650 AM CDT WED JUN 21 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 1000 AM CDT
* AT 648 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CREEK...PAWNEE AND WESTERN
OSAGE COUNTIES. A LARGE CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OVER NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA MOVING EAST
TOWARD THE WARNED AREA.
RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY
FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL
WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1000 AM CDT.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
INCLUDE SAPULPA...KELLYVILLE...MANNFORD...OILTON...DRUMRIGHT...
SHAMROCK...DEPEW...SLICK...BRISTOW...WESTPORT...RALSTON...
CLEVELAND...SKEDEE...BLACKBURN...MARAMEC...HALLETT...TERLTON...
JENNINGS...PAWNEE...GRAINOLA...HULAH...FORAKER...BIGHEART...
PEARSONIA...OKESA...BURBANK...BARNSDALL...FAIRFAX...WYNONA...
AVANT...HOMINY...OSAGE...SHIDLER AND PAWHUSKA.
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.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.
$$
LAT...LON 3565 9660 3565 9621 3601 9604 3614 9627u
3621 9608 3699 9602 3701 9700 3645 9705
DRMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 4 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 77 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.