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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 26, 2008Ottawa County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2008, 4:11 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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 26, 2008, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2008, 4:46 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Ottawa County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 262112
SVRTSA
OKC115-262215-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0331.080526T2111Z-080526T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
411 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WINDS
  TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PICHER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  27 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...QUAPAW.

STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3699 9462 3680 9462 3699 9491 3700 9490
      3700 9463
TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 303DEG 23KT 3701 9476

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 262131
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
431 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008

OKC115-262215-
/O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0331.000000T0000Z-080526T2215Z/
OTTAWA OK-
431 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY...

AT 427 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL
AND WINDS TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PEORIA...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 26 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3699 9462 3686 9462 3699 9481 3700 9481
      3700 9463
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 303DEG 23KT 3695 9463

$$

000 
WWUS54 KTSA 262146
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
446 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008

OKC115-262156-
/O.CAN.KTSA.SV.W.0331.000000T0000Z-080526T2215Z/
OTTAWA OK-
446 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE 
AS ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3699 9462 3686 9462 3699 9481 3700 9481
      3700 9463
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 303DEG 23KT 3690 9453

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	73 min
May 26, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Washington	69 min
May 26, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Washington	40 min
May 26, 2:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Nowata, Tulsa, Washington	44 min
May 26, 2:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers and 2 more	61 min
May 26, 4:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	60 min
May 26, 4:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	54 min
May 26, 5:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pawnee	45 min
May 26, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	39 min
May 26, 5:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	53 min
May 26, 5:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	42 min
May 26, 6:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	34 min
May 26, 6:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa, Wagoner	49 min
May 26, 6:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	23 min
May 26, 8:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	50 min
May 26, 9:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	34 min
May 26, 10:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata	5 hr
May 26, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Rogers	50 min
May 26, 12:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	28 min
May 26, 1:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig	23 min
May 26, 2:08 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata	3 days
May 26, 2:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 12 more	30 hr

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.