Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Oct 31, 2004, 11:37 PM CST for Cherokee 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
- Oct 31, 2004, 11:37 PM CST (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2004, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:36 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 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 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 010539 FFWTUL OKC021-010900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1137 PM CST SUN OCT 31 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 300 AM CST * AT 1131 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES EAST OF PEGGS TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODALL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE...WOODALL...TAHLEQUAH...ELDON AND SCRAPER. RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER NORTHWEST CHEROKEE COUNTY. ANOTHER 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 300 AM CST. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS TO RISE. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW MUCH WATER IS ON THE ROADS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER TO CARRY AWAY MOST SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUPS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES. LAT...LON 3615 9518 3575 9532 3575 9481 3615 9482 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 10:49 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 4 hr |
| Nov 1, 1:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 4 hr |
| Nov 1, 2:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 5 hr |
| Nov 1, 3:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 6 hr |
| Nov 1, 3:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell | 3 hr |
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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.