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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 23, 2004McIntosh County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 2004, 6:23 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 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
Apr 23, 2004, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McIntosh County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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, 11.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2004-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 810 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2004-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 260 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
810 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.8

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 232325
FFWTUL
OKC091-240330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
623 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 623 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 5
  MILES WEST OF STIDHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATES
  THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE             
  WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1030   
  PM CDT.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY THE HEAVY      
  RAIN INCLUDE...HANNA...RAIFORD...VIVIAN AND STIDHAM.

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 3530 9597 3517 9592 3536 9536 3555 9578

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KTSA 240334
FFSTUL
OKC091-240400-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1033 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MCINTOSH COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF MCINTOSH COUNTY FOR THE TIME BEING SO THE FLASH 
FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND THE FLOODING 
POTENTIAL MAY INCREASE AGAIN OVERNIGHT.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACherokee, Muskogee64 min
Apr 22, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair58 min
Apr 22, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACherokee52 min
Apr 22, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg55 min
Apr 22, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Tulsa55 min
Apr 22, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg75 min
Apr 22, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington44 min
Apr 22, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore65 min
Apr 22, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh67 min
Apr 22, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee46 min
Apr 22, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee32 min
Apr 23, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee59 min
Apr 23, 12:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSASequoyah41 min
Apr 23, 1:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair41 min
Apr 23, 2:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair29 min
Apr 23, 8:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPawnee48 min
Apr 23, 9:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage62 min
Apr 23, 4:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee4 hr
Apr 23, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee51 min
Apr 23, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair47 min

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.