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Flash Flood Watch 15, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood watch at Aug 11, 2008, 6:00 AM CDT for 9 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2008, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:00 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 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 Aug 11, 4:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 4:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 404 AM CDT MON AUG 11 2008 .DISCUSSION... FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING AND SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST H85 FLOW WILL CONTINUE WARM ADVECTION AND ISENTROPIC LIFT UP INTO OKLAHOMA AND WRN ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. UPPER FLOW WILL CONTINUE NORTHWESTERLY THROUGH THE WEEK...GENERALLY WEAK TO MODERATE IMPULSES TO ENHANCE CLOUDS AND CONVECTION...ESPECIALLY TODAY AND POSSIBLY TONIGHT. A MORE SIGNIFICANT WAVE ALOFT MOVES THROUGH ON TUESDAY AND SHOULD ALLOW FOR SUBSIDENCE ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS TUESDAY AS THE LAST SHORT WAVE COMES THROUGH...BUT MOISTURE SHOULD BE MORE LIMITED BY THAT TIME. A STRONG UPPER WAVE COMES SOUTH THURSDAY NIGHT AND WILL PUSH A SIGNIFICANT FRONT THROUGH THE AREA ON FRIDAY. WILL LEAVE THUNDERSTORM POPS IN THE CHANCE CATEGORY...BUT THINK THAT MIGHT INCREASE LATER IN THE WEEK. ECMWF IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT...EVEN TO THE POINT OF BRINGING DOWN A CLOSED H5 LOW INTO KS BY SATURDAY MORNING. COULD BE INTERESTING NEXT WEEKEND...WTIH BELOW NORMAL TEMPS. MODELS APPARENTLY BEEN INITIALIZING FROM DIFFERENT MONTHS THESE LAST FEW DAYS...MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR MAKING A DECISION. GFS HAS 32 POP FOR TUL TONIGHT...WHILE NAM HAS 71 POP. SIMILAR ISSUES ABOUND THROUGHT THE NEXT SUNDAY. ONGOING CONVECTION SEEMS WELL DEPICTED BY NAM...AND HAVE LEANED TOWARD THAT SOLUTION FOR TODAY AND COMPROMISED WITH THE GFS FOR TONIGHT...WITH HIGHER POPS THAN GIVEN BY THE MAV MOS. TRIED TO SHADE THE TEMPS WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE PRECIP AND CLOUDS THAN SHOWN BY THE GFS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 79 67 86 67 / 70 40 10 0 FSM 80 65 87 65 / 80 50 20 0 MLC 80 67 88 65 / 80 60 10 10 BVO 80 64 87 62 / 50 20 20 0 FYV 77 63 84 59 / 60 40 20 0 BYV 80 60 85 61 / 50 30 20 10 MKO 78 66 87 65 / 70 40 10 0 MIO 81 64 84 63 / 50 20 20 0 F10 78 66 87 67 / 70 40 10 0 HHW 82 70 86 66 / 80 60 20 10 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...17 LONG TERM....02
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 5:02 AM CDT, 58 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 4:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 8:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | McIntosh | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 4 hr |
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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.