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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 5, 2007Cherokee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2007, 7:57 AM CDT for Cherokee 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2007, 7:57 AM CDT (12:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2007, 11:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Cherokee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:01 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2007-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1096 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2007-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1096 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 051259
FFWTSA
OKC021-051600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
757 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1100 AM CDT

* AT 755 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
  AREA OF HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF COOKSON. THE STORM
  PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR INDICATES
  THAT NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. ANOTHER 2         
  INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1100 AM 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.

HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE
ROAD. 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 3566 9480 3588 9481 3588 9514 3565 9512

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 9:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSATulsa2 hr
Jul 5, 2:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPawnee42 min
Jul 5, 4:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa42 min
Jul 5, 4:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSATulsa4 hr
Jul 5, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSATulsa46 min
Jul 5, 4:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek45 min
Jul 5, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek54 min
Jul 5, 4:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOkmulgee50 min
Jul 5, 5:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSACherokee4 hr
Jul 5, 6:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAAdair4 hr
Jul 5, 6:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAMuskogee2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2007Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.