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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 9, 2007Craig County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Mar 9, 2007, 6:10 PM CST for Craig 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 9, 2007, 6:10 PM CST (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2007, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Whole counties

County Craig County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 100011
FFWTSA
OKC035-100215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
610 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 609 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF                 
  VINITA...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 INCHES     
  OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES                  
  WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 815 PM CST.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE...WHITE OAK...BIG CABIN AND KETCHUM.

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 3684 9499 3682 9532 3653 9532 3651 9501

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	36 min
Mar 9, 6:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer	24 min
Mar 9, 6:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	45 min
Mar 9, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes	40 min
Mar 9, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	59 min
Mar 9, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	29 min
Mar 10, 4:30 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Delaware, Haskell and 8 more	5 hr

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.