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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2000, 1:21 PM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2000, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 111824 FFWTSA OKC121-112015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 121 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 121 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCIPIO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE WARNING AREA. ANOTHER INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 315 PM CDT. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN INCLUDE CANADIAN...INDIANOLA...CROWDER...SCIPIO...KREBS...HAYWOOD AND MCALESTER DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. OMOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. CALL 1-800-722-2778 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3512 9609 3478 9606 3473 9578 3528 9555
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 11, 10:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 10:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1013 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE THE STORY THRU THE AFTERNOON WITH RICH MOISTURE STILL IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA. SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY...AREAL COVERAGE BEGINNING TO SHOW SOME SLIGHT INCREASE OVER THE AREA OVER THE LAST HOUR OR SO. LARGE BATCH OF RAIN THAT HAS BEEN MOVING NORTHWARD THRU THE DFW AREA THIS MORNING HAS NOW REACHED THE RED RIVER...AND ALSO WATCHING DECAYING MCS OUT OVER WESTERN OK. NICE SWIRL NOTED ON RADAR IMAGRY NEAR THE KS/OK STATE LINE THAT WILL BE LIFTING TOWARD MO DURING THE AFTERNOON. WILL ISSUE SOME UPDATED ZONES BY 1100 AM...BUT JUST A FEW MINOR CHANGES NEEDED. .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 1:00 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-121200- EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000 A FEW HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. .SYNOPSIS... TROPICAL MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT. SEVERAL WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA BRINGING PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. .PRIMARY HAZARD... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD OCCUR MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 44. .DISCUSSION... A VERY MOIST UNCAPPED AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. DAYTIME HEATING HAS ALLOWED THE AIRMASS TO DESTABILIZE ENOUGH TO CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME CAUSING PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ON ROADWAYS. AS THE ATMOSPHERE COOLS AND STABILIZES THIS EVENING...THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT BUT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND PERHAPS AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL REMAIN POSkSIBLE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.
Nearby
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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.