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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 6, 2007Tulsa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at May 6, 2007, 8:52 PM CDT for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2007, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2007, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 2404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 6, 6:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 6:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 5:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 6:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 6, 8:15 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 6, 8:44 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
844 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007

OKZ054-060-064-070215-
CREEK OK-OSAGE OK-TULSA OK-
844 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE...EASTERN CREEK AND TULSA

AT 844 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
COLLINSVILLE...STATIONARY. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY
THIS STORM INCLUDE...GRAY...TULSA...SAND SPRINGS...JENKS...OWASSO...
GLENPOOL...SPERRY...SKIATOOK...COLLINSVILLE...MOUNDS...KIEFER AND
SAPULPA.

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

LAT...LON 3586 9621 3582 9600 3643 9580 3641 9610

Special weather statement, May 6, 8:52 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
852 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007

OKZ054-060-064-070245-
CREEK OK-OSAGE OK-TULSA OK-
852 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     SOUTHEASTERN OSAGE...EASTERN CREEK AND CENTRAL TULSA

AT 852 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF KIEFER...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...GRAY...TULSA...SAND
SPRINGS...JENKS...GLENPOOL...SPERRY...SKIATOOK...KIEFER AND SAPULPA.

LAT...LON 3589 9621 3586 9599 3644 9585 3644 9615

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	15 min
May 6, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	31 min
May 6, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee	65 min
May 6, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	28 min
May 6, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	48 min
May 6, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	29 min
May 6, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	51 min
May 6, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	48 min
May 6, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Pawnee	56 min
May 6, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	54 min
May 6, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Washington	59 min
May 6, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	25 min
May 6, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	67 min
May 6, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	48 min
May 6, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	41 min
May 6, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	48 min
May 6, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	35 min
May 6, 11:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	26 min
May 7, 12:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	44 min
May 7, 12:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	40 min
May 7, 12:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	34 min
May 7, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	52 min
May 7, 1:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	27 min
May 7, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	40 min
May 7, 2:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	41 min
May 7, 2:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata, Washington	50 min
May 7, 3:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Creek, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Ottawa and 2 more	59 min
May 7, 3:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 14 more	24 hr
May 7, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	48 min
May 7, 4:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 4 more	60 min
May 7, 5:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	6 hr
May 7, 6:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	4 hr
May 7, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pushmataha	61 min
May 7, 6:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	56 min
May 7, 6:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	35 min
May 7, 6:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee	37 min
May 7, 7:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	4 hr
May 7, 8:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee	52 min
May 7, 8:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	40 min
May 7, 8:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	65 min
May 7, 10:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	43 min
May 7, 12:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	4 hr
May 7, 12:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	55 min
May 7, 1:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Latimer	3 hr
May 7, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	48 min
May 7, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	23 min
May 7, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	34 min
May 7, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	31 min

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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.