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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 24, 2013Craig County, Delaware County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2013, 12:15 AM CDT for Craig County, Delaware County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 105 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 2013, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2013, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 105 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 2629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1440 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

738 
WGUS54 KTSA 240515
FFWTSA
OKC035-041-115-240700-
/O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0027.130724T0515Z-130724T0700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1215 AM CDT WED JUL 24 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
  NORTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
  OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 1214 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. ONE INCH  
  OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURRED WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH
  POSSIBLE. 

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  MIAMI...AFTON...BERNICE...BERNICE STATE PARK...COMMERCE...
  FAIRLAND...GROVE...NARCISSA...PICHER...QUAPAW AND WYANDOTTE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 3699 9461 3655 9461 3663 9505 3701 9506
      3700 9462

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 23, 9:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 9:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
919 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

.DISCUSSION...
EVOLVING COMPLEX OF STORMS ACROSS KANSAS IS BEGINNING TO
ACCELERATE SOUTH SOUTHEAST. AT THE SAME TIME...STORMS OVER
ARKANSAS CONTINUE TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD WITH CONTINUED
DEVELOMENT ON THE WESTERN END INTO EASTERN OKLAHOMA. IT APPEARS
THESE TWO AREAS ARE TRYING TO MERGE AND THE RESULT LOOKS TO BE A
LARGE MCS THAT WILL AFFECT MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT.
SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN LIKELY WITH INITIALLY LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS TRANSITIONING TO MAINLY A DAMAGING WIND THREAT.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY ALSO RESULT IN SOME LOCALIZED
FLOODING.

HAVE RAISED POPS AND LOWERED TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT BASED ON THE
ABOVE SCENARIO.

UPDATE ON THE WAY.

&&

.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.

&&

SHORT TERM...10
LONG TERM....05

PLATE

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 10:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1045 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-241000-
ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK-
CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-
LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK-
OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK-
PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK-
WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR-
1045 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...SIGNIFICANT.
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

	AREA AT GREATEST RISK...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.

FLASH FLOOD.
	RISK...ELEVATED.
	AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

HEAVY RAIN.
	RISK...ELEVATED.
	AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

DISCUSSION...
A LARGE AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL SWEEP ACROSS MUCH OF
EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT.  THESE STORMS
WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE WITH WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS...SOME
SIGNIFICANT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. IN ADDITION...
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL
OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AHEAD OF THE MAIN CONVECTIVE LINE.
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE LIKELY
IN THE STRONGER STORMS WITH THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK LIKELY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.
WEDNESDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL...
           HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
SUNDAY...NO HAZARDS.
MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO BE ONGOING WEDNESDAY...AND MAY PERSIST
THROUGH MUCH OF THE MORNING HOURS. THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL
WILL BE LIMITED DURING THIS TIMEFRAME. STORMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP
LATER IN THE DAY ALONG THE RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. WHILE
TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER... HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL
MAINTAIN HEAT INDEX VALUES AROUND 100 DEGREES FOR MUCH OF THE
AREA.

ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS LIKELY TO MOVE INTO
THE REGION LATE THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.  SEVERE WEATHER
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM COMPLEX.  COOLER TEMPERATURES AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
ARE IN THE FORECAST FOR MUCH OF THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 23, 11:45 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1145 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1134 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 SSE SPERRY            36.26N 95.97W
07/23/2013  E60 MPH          TULSA              OK   TRAINED SPOTTER

            THUNDERSTORM WINDS ESTIMATED TO 60 MPH. 3 INCH DIAMETER
            TREE LIMBS DOWNED.

&&

JDS

Local storm report, Jul 23, 11:46 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1146 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1142 PM     TSTM WND GST     TULSA                   36.13N 95.92W
07/23/2013  M76 MPH          TULSA              OK   ASOS

            MEASURED 76 MPH WINDS AT THE TULSA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

&&

JDS

Local storm report, Jul 23, 11:49 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1149 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1140 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 NE TULSA              36.17N 95.87W
07/23/2013  M71 MPH          TULSA              OK   MESONET

            MEASURED THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST AT THE TULSA MESONET.

&&

JDS

Local storm report, Jul 23, 11:50 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1150 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1145 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 W TULSA               36.13N 95.98W
07/23/2013  E70 MPH          TULSA              OK   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC ESTIMATED 60 TO 70 MPH THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND
            TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AT 37TH AND JACKSON IN WEST TULSA.

&&

JDS

Local storm report, Jul 24, 12:06 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1206 AM CDT WED JUL 24 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1143 PM     TSTM WND GST     12 S TULSA              35.96N 95.92W
07/23/2013  M60 MPH          TULSA              OK   AMATEUR RADIO

            MEASURED WIND GUST OF 60 MPH AT 121ST AND PEORIA.

&&

JDS

Local storm report, Jul 24, 12:13 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1213 AM CDT WED JUL 24 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1204 AM     TSTM WND GST     4 W HECTORVILLE         35.84N 96.00W
07/24/2013  M66 MPH          OKMULGEE           OK   MESONET

            MEASURED THUNDERSTORM WIND OF 66 MPH AT THE HECTORVILLE
            MESONET.

&&

JDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	30 min
Jul 23, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	24 min
Jul 23, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	24 min
Jul 23, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	37 min
Jul 23, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	34 min
Jul 23, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers	48 min
Jul 23, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Washington	62 min
Jul 23, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 5 more	58 min
Jul 23, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	56 min
Jul 23, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner	43 min
Jul 23, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers and 2 more	34 min
Jul 23, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pawnee, Tulsa	30 min
Jul 23, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers and 1 more	58 min
Jul 23, 11:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	54 min
Jul 24, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Creek, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 4 more	52 min
Jul 24, 12:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	26 min
Jul 24, 12:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner	6 hr
Jul 24, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 6 more	67 min
Jul 24, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee	44 min
Jul 24, 12:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah	44 min
Jul 24, 12:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore, Mayes and 3 more	6 hr
Jul 24, 1:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	6 hr
Jul 24, 1:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	24 min
Jul 24, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	59 min
Jul 24, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	56 min
Jul 24, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	44 min
Jul 24, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	61 min
Jul 24, 6:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 3 more	6 hr
Jul 24, 3:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more	52 hr

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.