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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 1, 2004Haskell County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Nov 1, 2004, 3:50 AM CST for Haskell 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: Nov 1, 2004, 3:50 AM CST (09:50 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 2004, 7:00 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Haskell County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 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 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 010951
FFWTUL
OKC061-011300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
350 AM CST MON NOV 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HASKELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 700 AM CST

* AT 347 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED   
  TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS HASKELL COUNTY...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE...MC CURTAIN...MCCURTAIN...STIGLER AND KEOTA.

RADAR INDICATES THAT OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER 
THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 700 AM CST.

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 3510 9533 3506 9500 3535 9486 3540 9508

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KTSA 011300
FFSTUL
OKC061-011306-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
700 AM CST MON NOV 1 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HASKELL COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS 
MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF THE AREA. MAINLY LIGHT RAIN REMAINS IN THE 
AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE 
FLASH FLOODING. 

IN SOME AREAS IT MAY TAKE SEVERAL MORE HOURS FOR RAIN WATER TO 
DRAIN. DO NOT VENTURE INTO ANY FLOODED AREAS THAT MAY REMAIN. 

TO REPORT PREVIOUS FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
TULSA.

LAT...LON 3510 9533 3506 9500 3535 9486 3540 9508

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 31, 10:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	4 hr
Oct 31, 11:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	3 hr
Nov 1, 1:31 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	4 hr
Nov 1, 2:55 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	5 hr
Nov 1, 3:36 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	6 hr

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.