Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2004, 10:16 AM CDT for LeFlore County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma; Crawford 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2004, 10:16 AM CDT (15:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2004, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crawford County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:16 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 021516 FFWTUL ARC033-131-OKC079-135-021900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1016 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 1016 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM VAN BUREN TO 14 MILES WEST OF PANAMA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 200 PM CDT. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE SALLISAW...GANS...MULDROW...ROLAND...VIAN...BRUSHY... SHORT...MARBLE CITY...MOFFETT...POTEAU...CAMERON...PANAMA... SPIRO...POCOLA...ARKOMA...FORT SMITH...HACKETT...GREENWOOD... BARLING...EXCELSIOR...BONANZA...JENNY LIND...VAN BUREN AND FIGURE FIVE. 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 3564 9443 3562 9506 3499 9466 3523 9414 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KTSA 021657 FFSTUL ARC033-131-OKC079-135-021900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1150 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CRAWFORD...SEBASTIAN...SEQUOYAH AND LE FLORE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 1150 AM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF CRAWFORD AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN WESTERN SEBASTIAN COUNTY...WHERE HIGHWAY 45 WAS CLOSED NEAR BONANZA DUE TO HIGH WATER. SIGNIFICANT FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED IN THE GREENWOOD AREA IN SEBASTIAN COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 6 INCHES INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER HALF INCH TO AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 200 PM CDT...MAINLY OVER CRAWFORD AND SEBASTIAN COUNTIES. WHILE RAINFALL HAS ENDED OVER LE FLORE AND SEQUOYAH COUNTIES...SIGNIFICANT RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. REMEMBER... MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR IS OCCURRING. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS...CREEKS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER BY FOOT OR BY AUTO...YOU MAY BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE STRONG CURRENT. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. LAT...LON 3564 9481 3474 9498 3498 9434 3573 9400 $$
000 WGUS74 KTSA 021846 FFSTUL ARC033-131-OKC079-135-021900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 145 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 200 PM CDT FOR CRAWFORD...SEBASTIAN...SEQUOYAH AND NORTHERN LE FLORE COUNTIES... AT 145 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED ONLY A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS. RADAR AND RAIN GAGE MEASUREMENTS INDICATE THAT 3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...A FEW ROADS MAY REMAIN FLOODED OR IMPASSABLE DUE TO HIGH WATER. 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 5:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 55 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2004Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.