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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2016, 6:28 PM CDT for Craig County, Mayes County, Rogers 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, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Craig County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Rogers County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
806
WGUS54 KTSA 032328
FFWTSA
OKC035-097-131-040400-
/O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0015.160703T2328Z-160704T0400Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
628 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
NORTHERN ROGERS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
SOUTHERN CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 626 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 AROUND 2
INCHES ARE LIKELY IN MANY AREAS. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
VINITA... CHELSEA...
LANGLEY... ADAIR...
KETCHUM... DISNEY...
TALALA... BIG CABIN...
PENSACOLA... WHITE OAK...
CHEROKEE STATE PARK... BUSHYHEAD...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 266 AND 286.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3643 9501 3647 9581 3651 9581 3660 9562
3660 9543 3662 9543 3666 9500
$$1 follow-up statement
532
WGUS74 KTSA 040031
FFSTSA
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
731 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016
OKC035-097-131-040400-
/O.CON.KTSA.FF.W.0015.000000T0000Z-160704T0400Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MAYES OK-ROGERS OK-CRAIG OK-
731 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR
NORTHERN MAYES...NORTHERN ROGERS AND SOUTHERN CRAIG COUNTIES...
AT 729 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN
HAS FALLEN WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH POSSIBLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
VINITA... CHELSEA...
LANGLEY... ADAIR...
KETCHUM... DISNEY...
TALALA... BIG CABIN...
PENSACOLA... WHITE OAK...
CHEROKEE STATE PARK... BUSHYHEAD...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 266 AND 286.
LAT...LON 3643 9501 3647 9581 3651 9581 3660 9562
3660 9543 3662 9543 3666 9500
$$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, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 5 hr |
| 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, 6:44 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.