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Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 22, 2012Cherokee County, Delaware County, Mayes County, Oklahoma

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2012-03-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2012-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 21, 7:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek, Muskogee, Okmulgee38 min
Mar 21, 7:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPawnee46 min
Mar 21, 8:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMuskogee, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner52 min
Mar 21, 8:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore44 min
Mar 21, 8:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACherokee, Mayes, Osage, Rogers, Washington42 min
Mar 22, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALeFlore, Pushmataha61 min
Mar 22, 5:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware42 min
Mar 22, 6:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell26 min
Mar 22, 2:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford, Washington26 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2012Every areal flood warning in 2012

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.