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Flood Watch 9, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 8, 20227 counties in Oklahoma; Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flood watch at Jun 8, 2022, 3:33 AM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2022, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2022, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Flood severity: None

Counties Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 1072 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1373 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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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 Jun 8, 12:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 12:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 7:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	36 min
Jun 8, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	46 min
Jun 8, 8:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	47 min
Jun 8, 8:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	117 min
Jun 8, 8:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	26 min
Jun 8, 9:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner	28 min
Jun 8, 9:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	24 min
Jun 8, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	45 min
Jun 8, 9:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah	3 hr
Jun 8, 9:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah	47 min
Jun 8, 9:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair	5 hr
Jun 8, 10:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	15 min
Jun 8, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	35 min
Jun 8, 10:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	28 min
Jun 8, 10:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	43 min
Jun 8, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	26 min
Jun 8, 10:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sequoyah	33 min
Jun 8, 10:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	42 min
Jun 8, 10:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	46 min
Jun 8, 11:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	6 hr
Jun 8, 11:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Mayes	54 min
Jun 8, 11:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	42 min
Jun 8, 12:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	3 hr
Jun 8, 12:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 8, 2:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah	6 hr
Jun 8, 4:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	27 min
Jun 8, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	46 min
Jun 8, 6:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Crawford, Franklin	3 hr
Jun 8, 10:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	32 min
Jun 8, 11:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	22 min

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.