Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 2002, 8:42 PM CST for Latimer County, LeFlore County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma; Sebastian County, Arkansas. 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
- Mar 18, 2002, 8:42 PM CST (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sebastian County, AR, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KTSA 190242 FFWTUL ARC131-OKC077-079-127-190600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...RETRANSMITTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 831 PM CST MON MAR 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1200 AM CST * AT 831 PM CST RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1200 AM CST. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE VETERANS COLONY...WILBURTON...YANUSH...HIGGINS...BENGAL... DAMON...RED OAK...POTEAU...BIG CEDAR...MUSE...WHITESBORO... TALIHINA...HEAVENER...FANSHAWE...HOWE...WISTER...CAMERON... PANAMA...BOKOSHE...SPIRO...POCOLA...ARKOMA...ANTLERS...CLAYTON... RATTAN...CLOUDY...MOYERS...KOSOMA...SNOW...NASHOBA...STANLEY... TUSKAHOMA...KIAMICHI...ALBION...OLETA...KELLOND...DUNBAR...FORT SMITH...HARTFORD...HACKETT...GREENWOOD...BARLING...LAVACA... HUNTINGTON...MIDLAND...WASHBURN...BURNVILLE...EXCELSIOR... MANSFIELD...BONANZA...JENNY LIND AND BLOOMER. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 118 min |
| Mar 18, 11:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 96 min |
| Mar 19, 1:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 11:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford | 96 min |
| Mar 19, 2:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Madison | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.