Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Watches in 2019
Flash Flood Watch 21, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood watch at Oct 25, 2019, 3:09 AM CDT for 8 counties in Oklahoma; Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2019, 3:09 AM CDT (08:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2019, 4:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 653 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
152 WGUS64 KTSA 250809 FFATSA URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Flood Watch National Weather Service Tulsa OK 309 AM CDT Fri Oct 25 2019 ...Flash flooding possible across portions of southeast and east central Oklahoma as well as northwest Arkansas thru tonight... ARZ010-019-029-OKZ049-068>076-251615- /O.NEW.KTSA.FF.A.0021.191025T0809Z-191026T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Washington AR-Crawford-Sebastian-Pushmataha-Cherokee-Adair- Muskogee-McIntosh-Sequoyah-Pittsburg-Haskell-Latimer-Le Flore- Including the cities of Fayetteville, Springdale, Van Buren, Fort Smith, Antlers, Clayton, Tahlequah, Stilwell, Muskogee, Checotah, Sallisaw, McAlester, Stigler, Wilburton, and Poteau 309 AM CDT Fri Oct 25 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a * Flash Flood Watch for portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma... including the following counties...in Arkansas...Crawford... Sebastian and Washington AR. in Oklahoma...Adair...Cherokee... Haskell...Latimer...Le Flore...McIntosh...Muskogee... Pittsburg...Pushmataha and Sequoyah. * Through Saturday morning * A swath of heavy rain has fallen across southeast and east central Oklahoma, and into northwest Arkansas over the past 24 hours. Some places, such as McAlester, have picked up over 6 inches of rain. A band of rain is expected to set up over the region tonight in association with an upper level low pressure. With soils saturated, a band of rain setting up over the harder hit areas could cause flash flooding. The rains should begin to lift northeast and weaken by Saturday morning. * Main-stem river flooding is expected to occur in the watch area as well. This flooding will likely linger for a few days after the rains have ended. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A flash flood watch means rapidly rising water or flooding is possible within the watch area. && $$ Lacy
2 follow-up statements
600 WGUS64 KTSA 251556 FFATSA Flood Watch National Weather Service Tulsa OK 1056 AM CDT Fri Oct 25 2019 ...Flash flooding possible across portions of southeast and east central Oklahoma as well as northwest Arkansas thru tonight... ARZ010-019-029-OKZ049-068>076-261200- /O.CON.KTSA.FF.A.0021.000000T0000Z-191026T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Washington AR-Crawford-Sebastian-Pushmataha-Cherokee-Adair- Muskogee-McIntosh-Sequoyah-Pittsburg-Haskell-Latimer-Le Flore- Including the cities of Fayetteville, Springdale, Van Buren, Fort Smith, Antlers, Clayton, Tahlequah, Stilwell, Muskogee, Checotah, Sallisaw, McAlester, Stigler, Wilburton, and Poteau 1056 AM CDT Fri Oct 25 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... The Flash Flood Watch continues for * Portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma...including the following counties...in Arkansas...Crawford...Sebastian and Washington AR. in Oklahoma...Adair...Cherokee...Haskell...Latimer...Le Flore...McIntosh...Muskogee...Pittsburg...Pushmataha and Sequoyah. * Through Saturday morning * A swath of heavy rain has fallen across southeast and east central Oklahoma, and into northwest Arkansas over the past 24 hours. Some places, such as McAlester, have picked up over 6 inches of rain. A band of rain is expected to set up over the region tonight in association with an upper level low pressure. With soils saturated, a band of rain setting up over the harder hit areas could cause flash flooding. The rains should begin to lift northeast and weaken by Saturday morning. * Main-stem river flooding is expected to occur in the watch area as well. This flooding will likely linger for a few days after the rains have ended. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A flash flood watch means rapidly rising water or flooding is possible within the watch area. && $$
162 WGUS64 KTSA 260904 FFATSA Flood Watch National Weather Service Tulsa OK 404 AM CDT Sat Oct 26 2019 ARZ010-019-029-OKZ049-068>076-261015- /O.CAN.KTSA.FF.A.0021.000000T0000Z-191026T1200Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ Washington AR-Crawford-Sebastian-Pushmataha-Cherokee-Adair- Muskogee-McIntosh-Sequoyah-Pittsburg-Haskell-Latimer-Le Flore- Including the cities of Fayetteville, Springdale, Van Buren, Fort Smith, Antlers, Clayton, Tahlequah, Stilwell, Muskogee, Checotah, Sallisaw, McAlester, Stigler, Wilburton, and Poteau 404 AM CDT Sat Oct 26 2019 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED... The Flash Flood Watch for portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma has been cancelled. Rainfall rates have remained low enough to not create flooding issues across the region thus far. Rainfall will also be gradually tapering off over the harder hit areas over the past couple of days. $$ Lacy
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 8:04 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 18 hr |
| Oct 24, 8:05 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 48 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.