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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2016, 2:53 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 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
- May 29, 2016, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2016, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The text
As transmitted.
880
WGUS54 KTSA 291953
FFWTSA
OKC113-292245-
/O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0007.160529T1953Z-160529T2245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
253 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
* AT 252 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PAWHUSKA... HOMINY...
FAIRFAX... SHIDLER...
WYNONA... BURBANK...
SOUTHERN KAW LAKE... APPERSON...
PERSHING...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3669 9706 3668 9694 3675 9689 3674 9683
3677 9682 3678 9675 3680 9675 3674 9619
3638 9640 3642 9669 3644 9672 3654 9673
3657 9677 3647 9688 3646 9697 3652 9701
3655 9690 3658 9689 3660 9692 3659 9706
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 43 min |
| May 29, 6:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 39 min |
| May 29, 6:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 47 min |
| May 29, 11:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 42 min |
| May 29, 11:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 31 min |
| May 29, 1:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 44 min |
| May 29, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Rogers | 38 min |
| May 29, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 40 min |
| May 29, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 35 min |
| May 29, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 37 min |
| May 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 39 min |
| May 29, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 37 min |
| May 29, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 24 min |
| May 29, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 34 min |
| May 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 30 min |
| May 29, 4:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 24 min |
| May 29, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Osage | 3 hr |
| May 29, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 26 min |
| May 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 35 min |
| May 29, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 32 min |
| May 29, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 29 min |
| May 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 23 min |
| May 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 14 min |
| May 29, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 30 min |
| May 29, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 26 min |
| May 29, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 37 min |
| May 29, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 29 min |
| May 29, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 31 min |
| May 29, 6:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| May 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes | 33 min |
| May 29, 6:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes | 3 hr |
| May 29, 6:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Rogers | 32 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.