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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this areal flood warning at Feb 24, 2018, 9:19 PM CST for 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 36 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2018, 9:19 PM CST (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2018, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Haskell County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 328 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 24, 9:09 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 9:09 PM CST, 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 24, 4:30 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Tulsa OK 430 PM CST Sat Feb 24 2018 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-251130- Adair OK-Benton AR-Carroll AR-Cherokee OK-Choctaw OK-Craig OK- Crawford AR-Creek OK-Delaware OK-Franklin AR-Haskell OK-Latimer OK- Le Flore OK-Madison AR-Mayes OK-McIntosh OK-Muskogee OK-Nowata OK- Okfuskee OK-Okmulgee OK-Osage OK-Ottawa OK-Pawnee OK-Pittsburg OK- Pushmataha OK-Rogers OK-Sebastian AR-Sequoyah OK-Tulsa OK-Wagoner OK- Washington OK-Washington AR- 430 PM CST Sat Feb 24 2018 This Outlook is for Northwest and West Central Arkansas as well as much of Eastern Oklahoma. .DAY ONE...Through Tonight. POOR VISIBILITY. RISK...Limited. AREA...Eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. ONSET...After midnight. DISCUSSION... Areas of patchy fog will develop tonight across portions of eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. The fog could become dense in a few areas and with temperatures falling below freezing some elevated roadways, including bridges and overpasses could become slick in spots. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... Local Spotter Activation Not Anticipated. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. SUNDAY and Monday...No Hazards. TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY...Thunderstorm Potential. THURSDAY and FRIDAY...No Hazards. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... Drier conditions are forecast Sunday into the first part of next week before thunderstorm chances return mid week as another low pressure system looks to approach the region. Flooding could once again become a concern across portions of southeast Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. weather.gov/tulsa contains additional information.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:51 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Pushmataha | 24 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:58 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 14 hr |
| Feb 24, 9:22 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Sequoyah | 12 hr |
| Feb 25, 8:53 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 24 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:01 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Sequoyah | 24 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:10 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Franklin, Johnson, Logan | 40 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:01 AM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin, Johnson, Logan | 30 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2018Every areal flood warning in 2018
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.