Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 2004, 8:25 AM CST for Nowata County, Washington County, Oklahoma. 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2004, 8:25 AM CST (14:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Nowata County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 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 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KTSA 041427 FFWTUL OKC105-147-041800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 825 AM CST THU MAR 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NOWATA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1200 PM CST * AT 820 AM CST RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTH OF BARTLESVILLE TO SOUTH COFFEYVILLE...MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. FLOODING WAS REPORTED JUST EAST OF WANN ON HIGHWAY 10...WHERE WATER WAS OVER THE ROAD. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PARTS OF NOWATA AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHS POSSIBLE OVER THROUGH 11 AM. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE DEWEY...COPAN...DELAWARE...LENAPAH...WANN AND BARTLESVILLE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. REMEMBER...MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES IN THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONALLY ...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. LAT...LON 3661 9601 3682 9543 3700 9544 3700 9600 $$
2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS74 KTSA 041532
FFSTUL
OKC105-147-041800-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
928 AM CST THU MAR 4 2004
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WASHINGTON AND NOWATA COUNTIES
UNTIL 1200 NOON CST...
AT 925 AM CST...RADAR SHOWED ONLY SHOWERS AND LIGHT RAIN OCCURRING
OVER PORTIONS OF WASHINGTON AND NOWATA COUNTIES. THE HEAVIER
PRECIPITATION HAS MOVED NORTH INTO KANSAS.
HOWEVER...RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER
AN AREA FROM BARTLESVILLE TO OCHELATA TO SOUTH COFFEYVILLE TO WANN
AND BACK TO BARTLESVILLE. FLOODING OF SOME ROADS AND URBAN AREAS
HAS BEEN REPORTED. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE
WATER HAS HAD TIME TO RECEDE.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO
UNKNOWN DEPTHS. REMEMBER...MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF MAY CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES THROUGH THE REST OF THE MORNING.
ADDITIONALLY ...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO THE FLOODING.
LAT...LON 3700 9598 3645 9600 3647 9582 3660 9582
3663 9542 3701 9541
$$000
WGUS74 KTSA 041715
FFSTUL
OKC105-147-041800-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1114 AM CST THU MAR 4 2004
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WASHINGTON AND NOWATA COUNTIES
UNTIL 1200 NOON CST...
AT 1110 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED LIGHT
SHOWERS IN WASHINGTON AND NOWATA COUNTIES. HOWEVER...SECTIONS OF
SOME COUNTY ROADS WERE STILL UNDER WATER...AND SOME SMALL STREAMS WERE
STILL FLOODING. AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WASHINGTON
AND NOWATA COUNTIES WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 NOON.
IN PARTICULAR...WATER IS EXPECTED TO RISE OVER THE BRIDGE AT
HOGSHOOTER CREEK JUST NORTHWEST OF OGLESBY.
LITTLE ADDITIONAL RAIN IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...SO
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPROVE BY EARLY AFTERNOON ACROSS THESE
COUNTIES.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO
UNKNOWN DEPTHS. ALSO...EXCESSIVE RUNOFF MAY CONTINUE TO CAUSE
FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...STREAMS.
LAT...LON 3700 9598 3645 9600 3647 9582 3660 9582
3663 9542 3701 9541
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 7:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 74 min |
| Mar 4, 4:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 55 min |
| Mar 4, 4:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers | 111 min |
| Mar 4, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 78 min |
| Mar 4, 4:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 39 min |
| Mar 4, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 33 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.