Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2002, 1:31 AM CST for 4 counties in Oklahoma; Franklin County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 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 19, 2002, 1:31 AM CST (07:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 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, 7.5 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 190731 FFWTUL ARC047-131-OKC077-079-121-127-191130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 130 AM CST TUE MAR 19 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 PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 530 AM CST * AT 130 AM CST RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RADAR AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATES THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE WARNED AREA WITH AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE THROUGH 530 AM CST. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE... MCALESTER...WILBURTON...CLAYTON...ANTLERS...POTEAU...BIG CEDAR...FORT SMITH...HARTFORD AND OZARK. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. 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.
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KTSA 191023 FFSTUL ARC047-131-OKC077-079-121-127-191130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 425 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR FRANKLIN...SEBASTIAN... LE FLORE...PITTSBURG...LATIMER AND PUSHMATAHA COUNTIES UNTIL 530 AM CST... AT 405 AM CST...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD MOVED SOUTHEAST...BUT ONGOING FLOODING PROBLEMS CONTINUE. AT 330 AM...THE SEBASTIAN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS UNDER WATER...INCLUDING A BRIDGE ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 252 NEAR LAVACA. ALSO...A BRIDGE NEAR COOP PRAIRIE CREEK ROAD WAS FLOODED NORTH OF HARTFORD...AND SHERWOOD ROAD NORTH OF BONANZA WAS ALSO FLOODED. AT 340 AM...THE LE FLORE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED FLOODING ON RIDGE ROAD...AND THE ROAD HAD BEEN CLOSED. AT 345 AM...THE PUSHMATAHA SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT DOZIER ROAD WAS CLOSED...AND UNDER 3 FEET OF WATER. OFFICIALS IN PITTSBURG...FRANKLIN AND LATIMER COUNTIES HAD NO FLOODING REPORTED TO THEM YET. RADAR INDICATED THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER PORTION OF THE WARNED AREA SINCE LAST NIGHT. THE HEAVIEST RAIN LIKELY OCCURRED ACROSS SOUTHEAST LATIMER COUNTY...CENTRAL PUSHMATAHA COUNTY...AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF PITTSBURG AND LE FLORE COUNTIES. ANOTHER HALF INCH TO INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 530 AM CST. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...BUT FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH EARLY MORNING. 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. REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
000 WGUS74 KTSA 191125 FFSTUL ARC033-047-131-OKC077-079-121-127-191145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 525 AM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR CRAWFORD... FRANKLIN...SEBASTIAN...LE FLORE...PITTSBURG...LATIMER AND PUSHMATAHA COUNTIES AT 530 AM CST... AT 525 AM CST...RADAR SHOWED THAT THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE AREA. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING WHICH MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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, 8:42 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, 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.