Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003

Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 29, 2003Rogers County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2003, 7:21 PM CDT for Rogers County, Tulsa 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2003, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1868 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 300023
FFWTUL
OKC131-143-300315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
721 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  EXTREME SOUTHWEST ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 721 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
  CONTINUING TO REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY OVER PARTS OF EASTERN       
  AND SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY AND FAR SOUTHWEST ROGERS COUNTY. RADAR
  ESTIMATES SHOW THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN NEAR 
  AND JUST WEST OF CATOOSA AND AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
  IN PARTS OF SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY BETWEEN BIXBY AND GLENPOOL.
  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH MAY OCCUR BEFORE
  THE THUNDERSTORMS DISSIPATE AROUND SUNSET.       

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE CATOOSA...VERDIGRIS...TULSA...BIXBY...JENKS AND BROKEN
  ARROW.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO
UNKNOWN DEPTHS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY
MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO
REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. REMEMBER...
MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3614 9597 3586 9601 3585 9580 3633 9563

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 300247
FFSTUL
OKC131-143-300330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
945 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE FOR TULSA COUNTY AND              
   EXTREME SOUTHWEST ROGERS COUNTY AT 1015 PM CDT...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENDED IN THE WARNING AREA. SOME 
FLOODING WAS REPORTED JUST TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF CATOOSA 
AROUND 730 PM BUT WITH THE RAIN HAVING ENDED...WATER LEVELS ARE  
RECEDING. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE ON SCHEDULE 
AT 1015 PM. RADAR ESTIMATES SUGGEST THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN 
LIKELY FELL NEAR THE TULSA/ROGERS COUNTY BORDER SOUTHWEST OF 
CATOOSA. ANOTHER RAINFALL MAXIMUM OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OCCURRED JUST TO 
THE WEST OF BIXBY BUT NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THIS AREA.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 2:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata	5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.