Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2007, 6:48 AM CDT for Tulsa 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2007, 6:48 AM CDT (11:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2007, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:49 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 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KTSA 081149
FFWTSA
OKC143-081545-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
648 AM CDT SAT SEP 8 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 1045 AM CDT
* AT 648 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF TULSA AND CREEK
COUNTIES. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS PRODUCING 1 TO 2
INCH PER HOUR RAINFALL RATES. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING INTO THE
WARNED AREA WHERE 4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN WILL
RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING.
* LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN
INCLUDE...COLLINSVILLE...SPERRY...OWASSO...SAND SPRINGS AND TULSA.
WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY REMEMBER...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. 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 3587 9602 3589 9577 3616 9577 3617 9583
3643 9581 3643 9601 3617 9601 3616 9627
3609 9628 3609 9602
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 10:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 62 min |
| Sep 7, 11:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 59 min |
| Sep 8, 12:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 5:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 7:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 7:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 7:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 8:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 60 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 46 min |
| Sep 8, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 65 min |
| Sep 8, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 62 min |
| Sep 8, 5:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 4 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.