Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Watches in 2019
Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood watch at May 1, 2019, 3:18 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; Madison County, Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2019, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2019, 4:21 AM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Madison County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
451 WGUS64 KTSA 012018 FFATSA URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Flood Watch National Weather Service Tulsa OK 318 PM CDT Wed May 1 2019 ARZ010-011-OKZ065>071-021200- /O.NEW.KTSA.FF.A.0002.190501T2018Z-190502T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Washington AR-Madison-Okfuskee-Okmulgee-Wagoner-Cherokee-Adair- Muskogee-McIntosh- Including the cities of Fayetteville, Springdale, Huntsville, Okemah, Okmulgee, Wagoner, Tahlequah, Stilwell, Muskogee, and Checotah 318 PM CDT Wed May 1 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a * Flash Flood Watch for portions of northwest Arkansas and Oklahoma...including the following counties...in northwest Arkansas...Madison and Washington AR. in Oklahoma...Adair... Cherokee...McIntosh...Muskogee...Okfuskee...Okmulgee and Wagoner. * Through Thursday morning * Additional showers and thunderstorms may move into parts of eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas this evening and overnight. * Much of this area received around 2 to 4 inches of rain over past 24 to 36 hours. Any additional rainfall could lead to flash flooding, especially near low-lying areas and smaller creeks and streams. In addition, a few main stem rivers could also rise to minor or moderate flood depending on which areas receive the heaviest rainfall. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A flash flood watch means rapidly rising water or flooding is possible within the watch area. If you are in the watch area, keep informed, and be ready for quick action if flash flooding is observed or if a warning is issued. Do not drive your vehicle into areas where water covers the road to unknown depths. Take a different route to reach your destination or wait until the water recedes. && $$ ARZ001-002-OKZ054>064-021200- /O.EXB.KTSA.FF.A.0001.000000T0000Z-190502T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Benton-Carroll-Osage-Washington OK-Nowata-Craig-Ottawa-Pawnee- Tulsa-Rogers-Mayes-Delaware-Creek- Including the cities of Rogers, Bentonville, Berryville, Eureka Springs, Pawhuska, Bartlesville, Nowata, Vinita, Miami, Pawnee, Tulsa, Claremore, Pryor, Grove, Jay, and Sapulpa 318 PM CDT Wed May 1 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... The National Weather Service in Tulsa has expanded the * Flash Flood Watch to include portions of northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma...including the following counties...in northwest Arkansas...Benton and Carroll. in northeast Oklahoma...Craig...Creek...Delaware...Mayes...Nowata...Osage... Ottawa...Pawnee...Rogers...Tulsa and Washington OK. * Through Thursday morning * Additional showers and thunderstorms may develop across northeast Oklahoma and into northwest Arkansas this evening and overnight. * Much of this area received around 2 to 4 inches of rain over past 24 to 36 hours. Any additional rainfall could lead to flash flooding, especially near low-lying areas and smaller creeks and streams. In addition, a few main stem rivers could also rise to minor or moderate flood depending on which areas receive the heaviest rainfall. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A flash flood watch means rapidly rising water or flooding is possible within the watch area. If you are in the watch area, keep informed, and be ready for quick action if flash flooding is observed or if a warning is issued. Do not drive your vehicle into areas where water covers the road to unknown depths. Take a different route to reach your destination or wait until the water recedes. && $$ ARZ019-020-029-OKZ049-053-072>076-021200- /O.EXT.KTSA.FF.A.0001.000000T0000Z-190502T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Crawford-Franklin-Sebastian-Pushmataha-Choctaw-Sequoyah-Pittsburg- Haskell-Latimer-Le Flore- Including the cities of Van Buren, Ozark, Charleston, Fort Smith, Antlers, Clayton, Hugo, Sallisaw, McAlester, Stigler, Wilburton, and Poteau 318 PM CDT Wed May 1 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... The Flash Flood Watch is now in effect for * Portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma...including the following counties...in Arkansas...Crawford...Franklin and Sebastian. in Oklahoma...Choctaw...Haskell...Latimer...Le Flore... Pittsburg...Pushmataha and Sequoyah. * Through Thursday morning * Additional showers and thunderstorms may develop across southeast Oklahoma and into west central Arkansas this evening and overnight. * Much of this area received around 2 to 4 inches of rain over past 24 to 36 hours. Any additional rainfall could lead to flash flooding, especially near low-lying areas and smaller creeks and streams. In addition, a few main stem rivers could also rise to minor or moderate flood depending on which areas receive the heaviest rainfall. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A flash flood watch means rapidly rising water or flooding is possible within the watch area. If you are in the watch area, keep informed, and be ready for quick action if flash flooding is observed or if a warning is issued. Do not drive your vehicle into areas where water covers the road to unknown depths. Take a different route to reach your destination or wait until the water recedes. && $$
1 follow-up statement
216 WGUS64 KTSA 020921 FFATSA URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Flood Watch National Weather Service Tulsa OK 421 AM CDT Thu May 2 2019 ARZ010-011-OKZ067>071-021730- /O.CAN.KTSA.FF.A.0002.000000T0000Z-190502T1200Z/ /O.NEW.KTSA.FF.A.0003.190503T1200Z-190504T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Washington AR-Madison-Wagoner-Cherokee-Adair-Muskogee-McIntosh- Including the cities of Fayetteville, Springdale, Huntsville, Wagoner, Tahlequah, Stilwell, Muskogee, and Checotah 421 AM CDT Thu May 2 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THAT WAS EFFECTIVE THROUGH 7 AM THURSDAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a * Flash Flood Watch for portions of northwest Arkansas and Oklahoma...including the following counties...in northwest Arkansas...Madison and Washington AR. in Oklahoma...Adair... Cherokee...McIntosh...Muskogee and Wagoner. * From Friday morning through Saturday morning * Additional showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop across eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas on Friday as another upper level system and surface cold front move through the region. * Much of the area has received 4 to 6 inches of rain over the past few days. Local amounts Friday between 1 and 2 inches will be possible. These amounts will aggravate ongoing flooding along with main stem rivers that have seen rises from the recent convection. * PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A flash flood watch means rapidly rising water or flooding is possible within the watch area. If you are in the watch area, keep informed, and be ready for quick action if flash flooding is observed or if a warning is issued. Do not drive your vehicle into areas where water covers the road to unknown depths. Take a different route to reach your destination or wait until the water recedes. && The Flash Flood Watch for portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma this morning has been cancelled. The threat for heavy rain has ended across the area this morning, therefore the watch has been cancelled. $$ ARZ001-002-019-020-029-OKZ049-053-057-058-062-063-072>076-021730- /O.CAN.KTSA.FF.A.0001.000000T0000Z-190502T1200Z/ /O.NEW.KTSA.FF.A.0003.190503T1200Z-190504T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Benton-Carroll-Crawford-Franklin-Sebastian-Pushmataha-Choctaw- Craig-Ottawa-Mayes-Delaware-Sequoyah-Pittsburg-Haskell-Latimer- Le Flore- Including the cities of Rogers, Bentonville, Berryville, Eureka Springs, Van Buren, Ozark, Charleston, Fort Smith, Antlers, Clayton, Hugo, Vinita, Miami, Pryor, Grove, Jay, Sallisaw, McAlester, Stigler, Wilburton, and Poteau 421 AM CDT Thu May 2 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THAT WAS EFFECTIVE THROUGH 7 AM THURSDAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a * Flash Flood Watch for portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma... including the following counties...in Arkansas...Benton... Carroll...Crawford...Franklin and Sebastian. in Oklahoma... Choctaw...Craig...Delaware...Haskell...Latimer...Le Flore... Mayes...Ottawa...Pittsburg...Pushmataha and Sequoyah. * From Friday morning through Saturday morning * From Friday morning through Saturday morning * Additional showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop across eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas on Friday as another upper level system and surface cold front move through the region. * Much of the area has received 4 to 6 inches of rain over the past few days. Local amounts Friday between 1 and 2 inches will be possible. These amounts will aggravate ongoing flooding along with main stem rivers that have seen rises from the recent convection. * PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A flash flood watch means rapidly rising water or flooding is possible within the watch area. If you are in the watch area, keep informed, and be ready for quick action if flash flooding is observed or if a warning is issued. Do not drive your vehicle into areas where water covers the road to unknown depths. Take a different route to reach your destination or wait until the water recedes. && The Flash Flood Watch for portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma this morning has been cancelled. The threat for heavy rain has ended across the area, therefore the watch has been cancelled. $$ OKZ054>056-059>061-064-021030- /O.CAN.KTSA.FF.A.0001.000000T0000Z-190502T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Osage-Washington OK-Nowata-Pawnee-Tulsa-Rogers-Creek- Including the cities of Pawhuska, Bartlesville, Nowata, Pawnee, Tulsa, Claremore, and Sapulpa 421 AM CDT Thu May 2 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED... The Flash Flood Watch for portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma has been cancelled. The threat for heavy rain has ended across the area this morning, therefore the watch has been cancelled. $$ OKZ065-066-021030- /O.CAN.KTSA.FF.A.0002.000000T0000Z-190502T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Okfuskee-Okmulgee- Including the cities of Okemah and Okmulgee 421 AM CDT Thu May 2 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED... The Flash Flood Watch for portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma has been cancelled. The threat for heavy rain has ended across the area this morning, therefore the watch has been cancelled. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 7:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Mayes, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 31 min |
| Apr 30, 9:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 9:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington | 21 hr |
| Apr 30, 9:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 9:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 23 min |
| Apr 30, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 24 min |
| Apr 30, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 10:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 24 min |
| May 1, 12:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 18 hr |
| May 1, 12:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 61 hr |
| May 1, 1:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| May 1, 1:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 18 hr |
| May 1, 1:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Hughes | 42 min |
| May 1, 1:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 3 hr |
| May 1, 2:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 24 min |
| May 1, 2:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 41 min |
| May 1, 2:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 17 hr |
| May 1, 3:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| May 1, 3:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 43 min |
| May 1, 3:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 6 hr |
| May 1, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg | 6 hr |
| May 1, 4:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 26 min |
| May 1, 4:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 25 min |
| May 1, 4:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 42 min |
| May 1, 4:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 52 min |
| May 1, 5:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 3 hr |
| May 1, 7:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 3 more | 9 hr |
| May 1, 8:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 30 hr |
| May 1, 2:51 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 11 hr |
| May 1, 6:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 7:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 9:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 10:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Benton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll, Madison, Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 37 min |
| May 1, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 31 min |
| May 1, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 16 min |
| May 1, 1:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 3 hr |
| May 1, 1:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Benton, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 1, 11:49 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.