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Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this areal flood warning at Mar 22, 2012, 9:03 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Delaware County, Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 13 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
- Mar 22, 2012, 9:03 AM CDT (14:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2012, 9:49 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 warning went out at Mar 22, 6:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 6:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee | 38 min |
| Mar 21, 7:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 46 min |
| Mar 21, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 52 min |
| Mar 21, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 44 min |
| Mar 21, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Osage, Rogers, Washington | 42 min |
| Mar 22, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 61 min |
| Mar 22, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 42 min |
| Mar 22, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 26 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.