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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 500, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 6, 2008Pawnee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2008, 11:54 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 66 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
Sep 6, 2008, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Pawnee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2008-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2008-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 215 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
590 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

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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 Sep 6, 9:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 9:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 6, 4:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
455 PM CDT SAT SEP 6 2008

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-071000-
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-
455 PM CDT SAT SEP 6 2008

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

.DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT.

FLASH FLOOD.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
	ONSET...AFTER MIDNIGHT.

HEAVY RAIN.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
	ONSET...AFTER MIDNIGHT .

THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
	RISK...SIGNIFICANT.
	AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...AFTER MIDNIGHT.

	AREA AT GREATEST RISK...AREAS NORTHWEST OF THE INTERSTATE 44
				CORRIDOR.

DISCUSSION...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT TO
THE WEST AND SPREAD INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN A LIMITED
FLASH FLOOD RISK ACROSS PART OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE BUT ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE
ISOLATED AND VERY SHORT LIVED.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
SUNDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING
ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE UPPER
AIR PATTERN WILL NOT CHANGE SIGNIFICANTLY DURING THE UPCOMING WEEK AS
SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WITHIN THE WESTERLY FLOW WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE AREA AND BRING PERIODIC CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
A COUPLE OF SURFACE FRONTAL BOUNDARIES WILL ALSO MOVE ACROSS THE
AREA DURING THIS TIMEFRAME HELPING TO ENHANCE THE CHANCES OF
THUNDERSTORMS.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 3:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAPawnee6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.