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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 399, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 8, 2008Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2008, 7:47 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 73 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: Jun 8, 2008, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 73 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 8, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 2488 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 5.0

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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 Jun 8, 3:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	27 min
Jun 8, 8:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata	53 min
Jun 8, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	62 min
Jun 8, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	41 min
Jun 8, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Washington	56 min
Jun 8, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Washington	64 min
Jun 8, 10:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers	62 min
Jun 8, 10:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Tulsa and 1 more	64 min
Jun 8, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Wagoner	67 min
Jun 9, 12:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	59 min
Jun 9, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	34 min
Jun 9, 12:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Muskogee, Sequoyah	54 min
Jun 9, 1:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	8 days
Jun 9, 2:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	12 hr
Jun 9, 2:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Osage	30 hr
Jun 9, 2:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	32 min
Jun 9, 3:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Washington	12 hr
Jun 9, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee, Washington	39 min
Jun 9, 4:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	50 min
Jun 9, 4:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	12 hr
Jun 9, 4:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata	12 hr
Jun 9, 4:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	4 hr
Jun 9, 4:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	46 min
Jun 9, 5:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	52 min
Jun 9, 5:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes	12 hr
Jun 9, 5:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Wagoner	52 min
Jun 9, 6:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Haskell, Sequoyah	49 min
Jun 9, 7:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg	48 min
Jun 9, 8:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Pawnee	12 hr
Jun 9, 8:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Creek	21 hr
Jun 9, 8:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Washington	24 hr
Jun 9, 8:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Washington	71 hr
Jun 9, 8:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	5 days
Jun 9, 8:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Osage, Tulsa	53 hr
Jun 9, 8:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Tulsa	65 hr
Jun 9, 8:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata	47 hr
Jun 9, 9:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	17 hr
Jun 9, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Adair	11 hr
Jun 9, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Cherokee	11 hr
Jun 9, 2:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers and 3 more	12 hr
Jun 9, 9:33 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.