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Flood Watch 7, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flood watch at May 31, 2022, 3:51 AM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at May 31, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2022, 3:51 AM CDT (08:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 31, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2022, 2:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 1601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at May 31, 12:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 12:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 6 hr |
| May 31, 2:34 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Ottawa | 12 hr |
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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.