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Flash Flood Watch 18, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood watch at Sep 23, 2019, 9:16 PM CDT for 16 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Sep 24, 2019, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 23, 2019, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2019, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 2039 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Sep 23, 7:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 7:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 4:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 6:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 6:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 7:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 7:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 8:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Delaware | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 10:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 6 hr |
| Sep 24, 11:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 5 hr |
| Sep 24, 12:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 5 hr |
| Sep 24, 2:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 116 min |
| Sep 24, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 39 min |
| Sep 24, 4:21 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 42 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:23 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 16 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 34 min |
| Sep 24, 4:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 6 hr |
| Sep 24, 5:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 2 hr |
| Sep 24, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 48 min |
| Sep 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 115 min |
| Sep 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 5:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 9:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 5 hr |
| Sep 24, 9:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 5 hr |
| Sep 24, 2:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Oklahoma, 2019Flash Flood Watches in Arkansas, 2019Every flash flood watch in 2019
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.