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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 408, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 15, 2006Adair County, Cherokee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2006, 2:40 PM CDT for Adair County, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 65 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: Aug 15, 2006, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2006, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 15, 11:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 11:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 1:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
103 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-161000-
ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK-
CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-
LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK-
OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK-
PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK-
WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR-
1238 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...MAINLY EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
	ONSET...LATE AFTERNOON .

DANGEROUS HEAT.
	RISK...ELEVATED.
	AREA...EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

FIRE WEATHER DANGER.
	RISK...LIMITED...SPREADINDEX=38.
	AREA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

DISCUSSION...
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING AS THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION BECOMES MORE UNSTABLE
FROM DAYTIME HEATING. A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS NEARLY STATIONARY
NEAR THE RED RIVER AND IS SLOWLY WASHING OUT. A FEW OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING OUTFLOW WINDS
OF AROUND 60 MPH. TEMPERATURE AT MID DAY WILL IN THE UPPER 90S IN
EXTREME SOUTHEAST AND WILL BE AROUND 100 DEGREES FOR MUCH OF THE
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. FIRE DANGER WILL BE HIGHEST IN THE
SOUTHEAST WHERE TEMPERATURES ARE WARMEST AND HUMIDITY IS THE LOWEST.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.
WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
THURSDAY...VERY HIGH FIRE WEATHER POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
THE CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE
FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY CURRENTLY NEAR
THE RED RIVER CONTINUES TO WASH OUT.

AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WASHES OUT...THE HEAT WILL RETURN AS
HIGH PRESSURE TAKES CONTROL AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT. THE HOT
WEATHER WILL MOST LIKELY LAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL
INFORMATION.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 15, 12:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1237 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006

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

0355 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MORROW                  35.86N 94.44W
08/14/2006                   WASHINGTON         AR   PUBLIC

            NUMEROUS LARGE BROKEN TREE LIMBS

0500 PM     TSTM WND GST     HANNA                   35.21N 95.89W
08/14/2006  E60.00 MPH       MCINTOSH           OK   PUBLIC

0526 PM     TSTM WND DMG     10 NE EUFAULA           35.39N 95.46W
08/14/2006                   MCINTOSH           OK   PUBLIC

            BARN BLOWN DOWN

1211 AM     TSTM WND DMG     VERDIGRIS               36.23N 95.69W
08/15/2006                   ROGERS             OK   PUBLIC

            LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWNED

&&

SAA

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 2:36 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
236 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006

OKZ068-069-152015-
ADAIR OK-CHEROKEE OK-
236 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:

IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
     EASTERN CHEROKEE

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     ADAIR

AT 236 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES
SOUTH OF ELDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL
BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...BARON...CHRISTIE...PROCTOR AND
ELDON.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	55 min
Aug 14, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	61 min
Aug 15, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes	41 min
Aug 15, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	34 min
Aug 15, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	66 min
Aug 15, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	64 min
Aug 15, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	57 min
Aug 15, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	38 min
Aug 15, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	42 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.