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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 13, 2004Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2004, 4:01 PM CDT for Wagoner 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: May 13, 2004, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 2528 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 384 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 132103
FFWTUL
OKC145-140100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
401 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 401 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN   
MOVING INTO WESTERN WAGNER COUNTY AT 20 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 1 
TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER 
1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 800 PM CDT.

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 3616 9577 3587 9575 3588 9525 3615 9562

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 140026
FFSTUL
OKC145-140100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
724 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WAGONER COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM
   CDT...

AT 720 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN WAS CONTINUING OVER 
PORTIONS OF WAGONER COUNTY.  

RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER 
PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER...RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER THE 
LAST HOUR HAVE BEEN LESS THAN ONE HALF INCH...AND THE RAIN IS 
DIMINISHING.  THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 8 
PM...WHICH SHOULD ALLOW ANY HIGH WATER TO RECEDE.  

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 VEHICLES. TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO REACH YOUR 
DESTINATION OR WAIT UNTIL THE WATER RECEDES.

LAT...LON 3588 9577 3583 9531 3605 9523 3610 9570

$$

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 140100
FFSTUL
OKC145-140130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
800 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXPIRES FOR WAGONER COUNTY...

AT 758 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN OVER 
PORTIONS OF WAGONER COUNTY.  HOWEVER...NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING RAINS 
ARE EXPECTED.  THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WAGONER 
COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3588 9581 3584 9529 3606 9523 3614 9572

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 11:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers	61 min
May 13, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers	65 min
May 13, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	59 min
May 13, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	40 min
May 13, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	39 min
May 13, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	52 min
May 13, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	47 min
May 13, 2:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Delaware	4 hr
May 13, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	41 min
May 13, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	19 min
May 13, 3:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	4 hr
May 13, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	38 min
May 13, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	44 min
May 13, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	43 min
May 13, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	34 min
May 13, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	50 min
May 13, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	40 min
May 13, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	48 min
May 13, 5:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	4 hr
May 13, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	53 min
May 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.