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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 15, 200713 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood watch at Jun 15, 2007, 2:57 PM CDT for 13 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Jun 15, 2007, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2007, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 15, 2007, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 16, 2007, 3:47 AM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Flood severity: None

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Creek County, OK, Latimer County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 15, 11:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 11:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	41 min
Jun 14, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	24 min
Jun 14, 9:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TSA	Choctaw, Creek, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pawnee and 3 more	14 hr
Jun 14, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	32 min
Jun 14, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	33 min
Jun 15, 12:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	30 min
Jun 15, 12:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Pawnee	3 hr
Jun 15, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	28 min
Jun 15, 1:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	33 min
Jun 15, 3:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Pawnee	3 hr
Jun 15, 8:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	2 hr
Jun 15, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	41 min

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.