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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 15, 201522 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood watch at Jun 15, 2015, 2:06 PM CDT for 22 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2015, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2015, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Flood severity: None

All 26 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 15, 12:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 12:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 9:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	58 min
Jun 15, 9:19 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	TSA	Ottawa	3 days
Jun 15, 10:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	2 hr
Jun 15, 10:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	2 hr
Jun 15, 12:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Sequoyah	119 min
Jun 15, 1:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee and 4 more	2 hr
Jun 15, 2:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa	4 hr
Jun 15, 3:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee	117 min
Jun 15, 3:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner	113 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Oklahoma, 2015 Flash Flood Watches in Arkansas, 2015 Every flash flood watch 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.