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Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood watch at Jul 9, 2015, 3:43 AM CDT for 16 counties in Oklahoma; Benton County, Carroll County, Arkansas. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2015, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware 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, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 9, 3:25 AM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:25 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 9, 12:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:04 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 39 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:40 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 34 hr |
| Jul 9, 10:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 10:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 11:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 12:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 1:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 1:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 3:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers | 12 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 12 min |
| Jul 9, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 52 min |
| Jul 9, 1:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 61 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:56 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Johnson, Logan | 3 days |
| Jul 9, 2:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 67 min |
| Jul 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 60 min |
| Jul 9, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 68 min |
| Jul 9, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 49 min |
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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.