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Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 4, 2008, 6:30 AM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2008, 6:30 AM CDT (11:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2008, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Benton County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Jul 4, 3:01 AM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:01 AM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 3, 7:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 28 min |
| Jul 3, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 9:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Muskogee | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 9:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 10:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 10:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Choctaw | 115 min |
| Jul 4, 10:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 12:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Choctaw | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 27 min |
| Jul 3, 7:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 35 min |
| Jul 3, 8:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 9:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 6:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 45 min |
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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.