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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 3, 2003Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2003, 11:23 AM CDT for Pittsburg 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: Aug 3, 2003, 11:23 AM CDT (16:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2003, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 031624
FFWTUL
OKC121-031830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1123 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 130 PM CDT

* AT 1123 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN  
  OVER A LARGE PART OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PITTSBURG COUNTY...MOVING
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF
  RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 I     
  INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 130 PM CDT.

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

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 3528 9550 3508 9605 3472 9609 3461 9585
          3461 9551

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 031737
FFSTUL
OKC121-031830-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1235 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PITTSBURG COUNTY UNTIL 130 PM
   CDT...

AT 1235 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY 
HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTH OF INDIANOLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH 
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TO THE NORTHWEST AND WILL 
MOVE INTO PITTSBURG COUNTY THROUGH 130 PM.

RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER 
THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 130 
PM CDT.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY RAIN
INCLUDE MCALESTER...KIOWA...PITTSBURG...BLANCO...SAVANNA...
HARTSHORNE...HAILEYVILLE...DOW...HAYWOOD...BACHE...ALDERSON...
KREBS...ARPELAR...SCIPIO...BLOCKER...CROWDER...INDIANOLA AND
CANADIAN.

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 3527 9549 3510 9604 3471 9607 3462 9553

$$

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, 8:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	3 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, 11:49 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.