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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2006, 12:47 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 10, 2006, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2006, 1:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ottawa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 Jul 10, 11:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 11:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1119 AM CDT MON JUL 10 2006 .UPDATE... 850 MB +22 AT OUN ON 12Z CHART HEADED OUR WAY. RAISED MAXIMUM TEMP TO AROUND YESTERDAYS LEVEL. EVEN NORTHWEST CORNER OF ARKANSAS INTO LOW 90S. SURFACE DEW POINTS AOA 70 AND TAIL OF MCV CURL COMBINED WITH MID 90S SHOULD INSPIRE MORE TSRA BY MID / LATE AFTERNOON THAN PREVIOUS TWO DAYS. BUMPED POP UP A TAD. TROPICAL AIRMASS FEATURES 40 K INDEX NORTHERN AREA LATE AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL ADDED TO AFTERNOON THUNDER RISK. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL NOTED BY SPC. SHOULD WET MICROBURST OCCURR..LOCAL 5.0 INCH RAIN MAY FOLLOW. GW && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 313 AM CDT MON JUL 10 2006) DISCUSSION... BULK OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY HAS REMAINED TO OUR NORTH THIS MORNING...AND EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. SUBTLE SURFACE BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WILL BECOME MORE DIFFUSE DURING THE DAY...WHILE THINNING CLOUD COVER BY AFTERNOON ALLOWS TEMPS TO WARM WELL INTO THE 90S MOST LOCATIONS. GIVEN THE INCREASE IN LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL DEVELOP BY AFTERNOON WITH MINIMAL INHIBITION IN PLACE. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP BY AFTERNOON WITH HIGHEST CHANCES ACROSS THE NORTH NEAREST THE MORE DEFINED SURFACE BOUNDARIES. SEVERE POTENTIAL WILL LIKELY DEPEND ON AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY IN PLACE WITH DOWNBURST WINDS THE MOST LIKELY IMPACT. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO REMAIN POSSIBLE GIVEN MOISTURE DEPTH. BROAD MID LEVEL CIRCULATION WILL TRAVERSE THE NORTHERN PLAINS ON MONDAY WITH THE SOUTHERN EXTENT OF THE TROUGH AXIS REMAINING TO OUR WEST TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. THIS FEATURE COMBINED WITH THE DEEP MOISTURE IN PLACE WILL SUPPORT CONTINUED PRECIP CHANCES THROUGH WEDNESDAY. UPPER RIDGE WILL SLOWLY STRENGTHEN OVER THE SOUTHERN U.S. BY LATE WEEK WITH SUBTLE SHORTWAVES TRACKING ALONG ITS NORTHERN PERIPHERY. WILL CONTINUE WITH VERY LOW PRECIP CHANCES AFTER WEDNESDAY AS FORCING WEAKENS AND SURFACE BOUNDARIES REMAIN NORTH. HEAT WILL BECOME AN INCREASING CONCERN BY LATE WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND...AS A PROLONGED STRETCH OF VERY MILD OVERNIGHT LOWS LOOKS PROBABLE ALONG WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES WELL ABOVE 100 DEGREES. && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM FORECASTER ID= 21 LONG TERM FORECASTER ID= 17
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 4:58 AM CDT, 7 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 29 min |
| Jul 10, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 24 min |
| Jul 10, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 27 min |
| Jul 10, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 31 min |
| Jul 10, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 36 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.