Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jan 5, 2005, 5:55 AM CST for Washington County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 2 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
- Jan 5, 2005, 5:55 AM CST (11:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2005, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:57 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 051157 FFWTSA OKC147-051400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 555 AM CST WED JAN 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 800 AM CST * AT 553 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN OVER WASHINGTON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE...BARTLESVILLE...DEWEY AND COPAN. RADAR INDICATES THAT AROUND 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 800 AM CST. 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 3645 9602 3646 9581 3701 9579 3699 9600 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KTSA 051405 FFSTSA FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 803 AM CST WED JAN 5 2005 OKC147-051413- WASHINGTON OK- 803 AM CST WED JAN 5 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 800 AM CST... THE HEAVY RAIN HAD ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...NO REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN RECIEVED BY THE NATIONAOL WEATHER SERVICE. HOWEVER LIGHT RAIN....INCLUDING SOME SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY...IS BEING REPORTED. THE ADDITIONAL RAIN IS UNLIKELY TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING...THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. TO REPORT PREVIOUS FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN TULSA. LAT...LON 3645 9602 3646 9581 3701 9579 3699 9600 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 5:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 4 hr |
| Jan 5, 6:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.