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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 3, 2003Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2003, 8:37 AM CDT for Pittsburg 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: Aug 3, 2003, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2003, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pittsburg County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 031335
FFWTUL
OKC121-031630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
837 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT

* AT 834 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 8
  MILES NORTHWEST OF SCIPIO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. RADAR      
  INDICATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE   
  WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1130   
  AM CDT.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE MCALESTER...KIOWA...BLANCO...ASHLAND...SAVANNA...HAYWOOD...
  ALDERSON...KREBS...SCIPIO AND INDIANOLA.

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 3522 9573 3503 9609 3463 9609 3463 9552

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	58 min
Aug 3, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	57 min
Aug 3, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	47 min
Aug 3, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	50 min
Aug 3, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	57 min
Aug 3, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	47 min
Aug 3, 3:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	68 min
Aug 3, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	62 min
Aug 3, 4:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Wagoner	58 min
Aug 3, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pawnee	38 min
Aug 3, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	56 min
Aug 3, 4:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	61 min
Aug 3, 6:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	4 hr
Aug 3, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	43 min
Aug 3, 8:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	3 hr
Aug 3, 10:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	49 min
Aug 3, 11:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	2 hr
Aug 3, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	41 min
Aug 3, 1:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	57 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.