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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 9, 2007Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2007, 4:35 PM CDT for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 115 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2007, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2007, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 5:05 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Tuskahoma, OK	WATER REPORTED OVER COUNTY ROAD IN TUSKAHOMA

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 092139
FFWTSA
OKC077-121-127-092330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
435 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHEASTERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  NORTHERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN COVERING MUCH OF SOUTHERN LATIMER
  COUNTY...NORTHERN PUSHMATAH COUNTY...AND SOUTHEAST PITTSBURG 
  COUNTY.  RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES APPEARS TO HAVE OCCURRED
  BASED ON RADAR DATA AND AN ADDITON 1 TO 2 INCHES IS LIKELY
  AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ONLY VERY SLOWLY ACROSS THE AREA.

* BUCK CREEK IN SOUTHEAST PITTSBURG COUNTY...JACK FORK CREEK
  IN NORTHWEST PUSHMATAHA COUNTY AND BOLEN CREEK ARE RISING
  RAPIDLY AND LIKELY TO FLOOD...AS ARE OTHER AREA CREEKS...
  AND DRAINAGE DITCHES.

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 3486 9506 3490 9560 3457 9568 3447 9507

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	36 min
Jun 9, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	41 min
Jun 9, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	45 min
Jun 9, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	48 min
Jun 9, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	44 min
Jun 9, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	51 min
Jun 9, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	47 min
Jun 9, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pushmataha	60 min
Jun 9, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	40 min
Jun 9, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	52 min
Jun 9, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	59 min
Jun 9, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee, Wagoner	31 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2007 Every flash flood warning in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.