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Areal Flood Warning 13, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 10, 201511 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this areal flood warning at May 10, 2015, 1:21 PM CDT for 11 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 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: May 10, 2015, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2015, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Creek County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 1564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.9
Supercell composite: 11.8

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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 May 10, 12:44 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 12:44 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 12:43 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 12:36 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 12:38 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 12:40 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 12:42 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 1:06 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 1:07 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
107 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 2015

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

0107 PM     FLASH FLOOD      BRANCH                  35.31N 93.95W
05/10/2015                   FRANKLIN           AR   PUBLIC

            WATER COVERING EUCAL RD IN BRANCH.

&&

JDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	46 min
May 9, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	45 min
May 9, 7:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	6 hr
May 9, 9:17 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	71 hr
May 9, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	38 min
May 9, 10:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg	6 hr
May 9, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	45 min
May 9, 10:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	115 min
May 9, 11:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	6 hr
May 9, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	50 min
May 9, 11:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	5 days
May 9, 11:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	63 hr
May 9, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	45 min
May 10, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	40 min
May 10, 12:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	4 hr
May 10, 12:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Sequoyah	56 min
May 10, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	48 min
May 10, 1:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	3 hr
May 10, 4:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	6 hr
May 10, 4:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	6 hr
May 10, 5:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	20 hr
May 10, 7:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	66 min
May 10, 8:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	6 hr
May 10, 8:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	6 hr
May 10, 8:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg	53 min
May 10, 8:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg and 1 more	6 hr
May 10, 8:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	60 min
May 10, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Choctaw	55 hr
May 10, 8:57 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	6 days
May 10, 9:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee, Tulsa	44 min
May 10, 9:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	50 min
May 10, 9:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	26 min
May 10, 9:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 3 more	65 min
May 10, 9:32 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Ottawa	45 hr
May 10, 9:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	4 hr
May 10, 9:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	32 min
May 10, 9:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	59 min
May 10, 9:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee and 1 more	6 hr
May 10, 9:52 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee	71 hr
May 10, 10:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah	48 min
May 10, 10:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	24 min
May 10, 11:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	72 min
May 10, 12:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg	107 min
May 10, 2:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee and 1 more	24 hr
May 10, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	35 min
May 10, 5:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	6 hr
May 10, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	46 min
May 10, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	35 min
May 10, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	39 min
May 10, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	38 min
May 9, 8:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	9 hr
May 10, 12:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	44 min
May 10, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	29 min
May 10, 4:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	59 hr
May 10, 5:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington	6 hr
May 10, 8:11 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	37 hr
May 10, 8:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Franklin, Johnson, Logan	3 days
May 10, 11:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sebastian	14 min
May 10, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	62 min
May 10, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	48 min
May 10, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	37 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2015 Every areal flood warning in 2015

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.