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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 13, 2005Mayes County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2005, 5:44 PM CDT for Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2005, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mayes County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2005-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 336 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2005-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 300 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
336 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
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In the hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 12:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1219 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1020 PM     TSTM WND DMG     COWETA                  35.95N 95.65W
06/12/2005                   WAGONER            OK   NEWSPAPER

            TREE UPROOTED. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

1035 PM     TSTM WND DMG     OKMULGEE                35.62N 95.96W
06/12/2005                   OKMULGEE           OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NUMEROUS LARGE LIMBS BROKEN. POWER OUTAGES.

&&

SAA
Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
209 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0355 PM     HAIL             10 W HOMINY             36.41N 96.57W
06/12/2005  0.75 INCH        OSAGE              OK   PUBLIC

&&

SAA
Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
255 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1013 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CATOOSA                 36.19N 95.75W
06/12/2005                   ROGERS             OK   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            LARGE TREE LIMB BLOWN DOWN ACROSS ROAD.

&&

SAA
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:40 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
540 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

ARZ001-132345-
BENTON AR-
540 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY:

IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     BENTON

AT 540 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES
NORTH OF SILOAM SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS
THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...WALNUT HILL...ROCKY
COMFORT...FAIRMOUNT...BLAND...MILLER...HILL TOP...BENTONVILLE...
SILOAM SPRINGS...ROGERS...LOWELL...GENTRY...GRAVETTE...PEA RIDGE...
LAKE FRANCIS...GALLITIN...HEALING SPRINGS...SPRINGTOWN...HIGHFILL...
CAVE SPRINGS...MONTE NE...CHEROKEE CITY...VAUGHN...LARUE...DECATUR...
CENTERTON...AVOCA...HIWASSE...BELLA VISTA...GARFIELD AND BEAVER LAKE.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner21 min
Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOttawa52 min
Jun 12, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers28 min
Jun 12, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee57 min
Jun 12, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware23 min
Jun 12, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSARogers, Tulsa51 min
Jun 12, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee, Okmulgee62 min
Jun 12, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg49 min
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell32 min
Jun 13, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkfuskee70 min
Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMayes66 min
Jun 13, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware54 min
Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.