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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 2016, 5:41 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 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
- Oct 6, 2016, 5:41 AM CDT (10:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2016, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 2652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted.
217 WGUS54 KTSA 061041 FFWTSA OKC113-061445- /O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0023.161006T1041Z-161006T1445Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 541 AM CDT THU OCT 6 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA... * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 539 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 4 AND 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... GRAINOLA... FORAKER... WEBB CITY... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR SO IS POSSIBLE AS MORE STORMS MOVE INTO THE WARNED AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. && LAT...LON 3700 9630 3699 9628 3677 9675 3700 9675 $$ LACY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 67 min |
| Oct 6, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 37 min |
| Oct 6, 2:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 48 min |
| Oct 6, 4:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 44 min |
| Oct 6, 4:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 7:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Washington | 38 min |
| Oct 6, 7:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 52 min |
| Oct 6, 8:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 45 min |
| Oct 6, 8:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 5 days |
| Oct 6, 8:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 6, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 3 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 41 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 31 min |
| Oct 6, 2:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Nowata, Pawnee, Washington | 13 hr |
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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.