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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 19, 2007Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2007, 7:09 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 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
Aug 19, 2007, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

County Muskogee County, OK

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 00:00Z on 2007-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 922 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2007-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
922 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 Aug 19, 3:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 3:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 1:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
121 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2007

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-201000-
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-
121 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2007

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

TORNADO.
        RISK...LIMITED.
        AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
        ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...ELEVATED.
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS .
	ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON.

FLASH FLOOD.
        RISK...ELEVATED.
        AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
        ONSET...ONGOING.

HEAVY RAIN.
	RISK...ELEVATED.
	AREA... NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
        ONSET...ONGOING.

DISCUSSION...
TROPICAL DEPRESSION ERIN HAS DISPLAYED DIURNAL WEAKENING OVER
THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS AS THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION HASNT BEEN
AS EASILY IDENTIFIED PER RADAR DATA. LATEST SURFACE DATA INDICATES
THE CENTER LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN PAWNEE COUNTY AS THE CIRCULATION
LIFTS EAST NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON...THIS SYSTEM WILL STILL BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS...MAINLY ACROSS
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL
BE COMMON IN THE VICINITY OF THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR WITH LOCAL
AMOUNTS OVER 5 INCHES POSSIBLE.  SUSTAINED WINDS WILL REACH 25 TO
30 MILES AN HOUR NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF THE CENTER WITH GUSTS OVER
40 MILES AN HOUR POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HIGHER WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE
IN THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED AWAY FROM THE CENTER. GUSTS NEAR 60
MILES AN HOUR POSSIBLE..THUS RESULTING IN A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

AS IS TYPICAL WITH THESE SYSTEMS...ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO
BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY IN THE RIGHT FRONT QUADRANT THAT IS RELATIVE
TO THE MOVEMENT OF THIS UPPER LOW.

WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE BY THIS EVENING AS THE
CENTER OF ERIN MOVES NORTHEAST AWAY FROM THE AREA.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS.
WEDNESDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
RESIDUAL TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO RESULT IN A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN BY LATE IN
THE WEEK AS MOISTURE ONCE AGAIN INCREASES ACROSS THE AREA.
AFTERNOON HEAT INDICIES IN THE 100 TO 105 RANGE WILL ALSO BE
POSSIBLE BY MID TO LATE WEEK.

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL
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In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 7:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAMuskogee3 hr
Aug 19, 9:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASequoyah38 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.