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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 14, 2018Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2018, 10:27 PM 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: May 14, 2018, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2018, 2:30 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 2133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

368 
WGUS54 KTSA 150327
FFWTSA
OKC113-150730-
/O.NEW.KTSA.FF.W.0004.180515T0327Z-180515T0730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Tulsa OK
1027 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2018

The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Northwest Osage County in northeastern Oklahoma...

* Until 230 AM CDT

* At 1026 PM CDT, Doppler radar detected a line of thunderstorms 
  producing heavy rain across the warned area, following a nearly 
  stationary storm earlier that dropped heavy rainfall over far 
  northwest Osage county. Radar estimates that 3 to 4 inches of rain 
  has fallen. Flash flooding is could begin shortly.

* Some locations that may experience flooding include...
  Grainola...                       

LAT...LON 3700 9653 3685 9675 3700 9675

$$

Lacy

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	41 min
May 14, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	50 min
May 14, 8:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Osage	3 hr
May 14, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	24 min
May 14, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	66 min
May 14, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	58 min
May 14, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Washington	56 min
May 14, 11:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Rogers	51 min
May 15, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	60 min
May 15, 12:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers	27 min
May 15, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	37 min
May 15, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner and 1 more	45 min
May 15, 1:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	35 min
May 15, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	50 min
May 15, 2:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	3 hr
May 15, 2:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Wagoner	36 min
May 15, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	42 min
May 15, 2:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	47 min
May 15, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Sequoyah	67 min
May 15, 3:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	54 min
May 15, 3:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Latimer, Pushmataha	68 min
May 15, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	32 min
May 15, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	38 min
May 15, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	38 min
May 15, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	49 min
May 15, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	37 min
May 15, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg, Pushmataha	43 min
May 15, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	41 min
May 15, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	25 min
May 15, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	34 min
May 15, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	39 min
May 15, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Ottawa	43 min
May 15, 5:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Pushmataha	3 hr
May 15, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	29 min
May 15, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	24 min
May 15, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	34 min
May 15, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	29 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.