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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 2, 2008Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Mar 2, 2008, 7:00 PM CST for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 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: Mar 2, 2008, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2008, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Osage County, OK

The radar

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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 Mar 2, 6:55 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 6:55 PM CST, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 2, 1:01 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 2, 7:00 PM CST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
700 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008

OKZ054-059-030145-
OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK-
700 PM CST SUN MAR 2 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     NORTHERN OSAGE AND PAWNEE

AT 700 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEBB CITY TO 14 MILES WEST
OF APPERSON TO 27 MILES WEST OF RALSTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME
LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA...
SHIDLER...WYNONA...FAIRFAX...PERSHING...NELAGONEY...BURBANK...
OKESA...APPERSON...WEBB CITY...PEARSONIA...BIGHEART...FORAKER...
HULAH...GRAINOLA AND RALSTON.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.

LAT...LON 3701 9603 3687 9605 3647 9626 3644 9703
      3653 9703 3658 9691 3657 9703 3668 9703
      3672 9700 3670 9695 3677 9689 3680 9676
      3700 9674
TIME...MOT...LOC 0100Z 256DEG 43KT 3696 9689 3670 9693
          3649 9714

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 6:48 PM CST	Wind Advisory	TSA	Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 10 more	11 hr
Mar 2, 7:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	54 min
Mar 2, 7:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	44 min
Mar 2, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	45 min
Mar 2, 8:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	56 min
Mar 2, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	47 min
Mar 2, 9:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	57 min
Mar 2, 9:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	49 min
Mar 2, 9:35 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	25 min
Mar 2, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	39 min
Mar 2, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	46 min
Mar 2, 9:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	23 min
Mar 2, 9:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	67 min
Mar 2, 10:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	55 min
Mar 2, 10:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	53 min
Mar 2, 11:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	52 min
Mar 2, 11:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes	62 min
Mar 2, 11:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	48 min
Mar 3, 12:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair, Delaware	62 min
Mar 3, 12:51 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	54 min
Mar 3, 1:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	6 hr
Mar 3, 1:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	57 min
Mar 3, 2:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	6 hr
Mar 3, 4:05 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 7 more	28 hr
Mar 3, 4:05 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 13 more	26 hr
Mar 3, 4:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	6 hr
Mar 3, 7:43 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	3 hr
Mar 3, 8:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	24 hr
Mar 3, 8:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	3 days
Mar 3, 8:18 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	31 hr
Mar 3, 8:54 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha, Sequoyah	4 hr
Mar 3, 5:54 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	7 hr
Mar 2, 11:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	47 min
Mar 3, 12:31 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	44 min
Mar 3, 1:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	59 min
Mar 3, 1:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll, Madison	52 min
Mar 3, 2:56 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Franklin	6 hr
Mar 3, 3:41 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	6 hr
Mar 3, 8:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	26 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.