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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 18, 20086 counties in Oklahoma; Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 2008, 4:49 PM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma; Benton County, Washington County, Arkansas. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 18, 2008, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2008, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Benton County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KTSA 182150
FFWTSA
ARC007-143-OKC001-021-041-091-101-121-190045-
/O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0021.080318T2149Z-080319T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
449 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  DELAWARE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
  MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 446 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF CAVE SPRINGS TO 2 MILES EAST OF BRAGGS TO 2 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF ALDERSON...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THAT
  3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES
  WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 745 PM CDT.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AFFECTED BY HEAVY RAIN
  INCLUDE...WAR EAGLE...ROGERS...PUMPKIN CENTER...SCIPIO...PROCTOR...
  WATTS...ELDON...HIGHFILL...BENTONVILLE...WARNER...SPRINGTOWN...
  SILOAM SPRINGS...PEA RIDGE...WEST SILOAM SPRINGS...TAHLEQUAH...
  GARFIELD...CROWDER...BELLA VISTA...INDIANOLA...GENTRY...HANNA...
  GATEWAY...CANADIAN...DECATUR...HIWASSE...RAIFORD...SCRAPER...
  VIVIAN...EUFAULA...GRAVETTE...MAYSVILLE...FORT GIBSON...TAFT...
  BOYNTON...KEEFETON...OKTAHA...COUNCIL HILL...MUSKOGEE...
  RENTIESVILLE...STIDHAM...CHECOTAH...PEGGS...HULBERT...BERNICE...
  GROVE...CLEORA...CHLOETA...COLCORD...KANSAS...TWIN OAKS...LEACH...
  OAKS AND JAY.

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 3661 9460 3650 9460 3650 9386 3577 9398
      3565 9448 3564 9512 3546 9508 3527 9523
      3532 9550 3507 9534 3503 9551 3461 9554
      3472 9610 3530 9597 3556 9570 3584 9573
      3585 9524 3601 9524 3617 9501 3667 9499
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 197DEG 8KT 3632 9420 3566 9516
          3493 9566

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw	67 min
Mar 17, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	30 min
Mar 17, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	26 min
Mar 17, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	28 min
Mar 17, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	45 min
Mar 17, 9:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	25 min
Mar 17, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	26 min
Mar 17, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	36 min
Mar 17, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	37 min
Mar 17, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	14 min
Mar 17, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	35 min
Mar 17, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Wagoner	45 min
Mar 17, 10:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	65 min
Mar 17, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	43 min
Mar 17, 11:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	39 min
Mar 17, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	46 min
Mar 18, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	44 min
Mar 18, 12:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Delaware	4 hr
Mar 18, 12:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	51 min
Mar 18, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	34 min
Mar 18, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg	49 min
Mar 18, 3:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Delaware	3 hr
Mar 18, 4:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	25 min
Mar 18, 4:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	49 min
Mar 18, 4:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 4 more	6 hr
Mar 18, 7:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh	64 min
Mar 18, 8:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Rogers, Tulsa	6 hr
Mar 18, 8:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Adair	47 hr
Mar 18, 8:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	72 hr
Mar 18, 8:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	26 hr
Mar 18, 8:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	6 hr
Mar 18, 9:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer	35 min
Mar 18, 9:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	4 days
Mar 18, 9:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	6 days
Mar 18, 9:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	3 days
Mar 18, 10:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	54 min
Mar 18, 1:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	6 hr
Mar 18, 2:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	6 hr
Mar 18, 3:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	4 days
Mar 18, 3:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	24 hr
Mar 17, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	30 min
Mar 17, 7:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	23 min
Mar 17, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	50 min
Mar 17, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	37 min
Mar 18, 5:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll, Madison, Washington	57 min
Mar 18, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin, Sebastian	53 min
Mar 18, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	58 min
Mar 18, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	59 min
Mar 18, 11:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Franklin	40 min
Mar 18, 3:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	71 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2008 Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2008 Every flash flood warning in 2008

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.