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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 3, 2016Craig County, Nowata County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2016, 5:16 PM CDT for Craig County, Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr. 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 3, 2016, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2016, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 704 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

As transmitted.

946 
WGUS54 KTSA 032216
FFWTSA
OKC035-105-040345-
/O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0014.160703T2216Z-160704T0345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
516 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN NOWATA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
  CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 514 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN HAS
  FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3
  INCHES ARE LIKELY. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  VINITA...                         WELCH...
  BLUEJACKET...                     NEW ALLUWE...
  PYRAMID CORNERS...                CENTRAILIA...
  HOLLOW...                         CENTRALIA...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 286 AND 293.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

 
LAT...LON 3699 9504 3698 9503 3697 9504 3696 9502
      3695 9499 3694 9500 3666 9500 3660 9552
      3660 9559 3661 9558 3667 9543 3700 9542
      3700 9501

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 3:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Ottawa, Rogers	43 min
Jul 3, 3:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 14 more	27 hr
Jul 3, 3:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers	48 min
Jul 3, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	29 min
Jul 3, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	31 min
Jul 3, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	34 min
Jul 3, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	31 min
Jul 3, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Washington	46 min
Jul 3, 4:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Washington	6 hr
Jul 3, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	36 min
Jul 3, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	29 min
Jul 3, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	37 min
Jul 3, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Washington	35 min
Jul 3, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	31 min
Jul 3, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	31 min
Jul 3, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata	49 min
Jul 3, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	45 min
Jul 3, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	47 min
Jul 3, 6:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers	5 hr
Jul 3, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	16 min
Jul 3, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	33 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.