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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 13, 2008Craig County, Nowata County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2008, 1:13 PM CDT for Craig County, Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 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: Jun 13, 2008, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2008, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 1736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 9.8

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The text

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

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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 Jun 13, 12:36 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 12:36 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:13 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
113 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008

OKZ055>058-131915-
CRAIG OK-NOWATA OK-OTTAWA OK-WASHINGTON OK-
113 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     NORTHERN CRAIG...NORTHERN OTTAWA...SOUTHERN NOWATA AND
     WASHINGTON

AT 113 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES
WEST OF NOWATA...MOVING EAST AT 49 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...NOWATA...DELAWARE...MIAMI...
COMMERCE...OTTAWA...QUAPAW...CARDIN...PICHER...CENTRALIA...HOLLOW...
PYRAMID CORNERS...BLUEJACKET...CENTRAILIA AND WELCH.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
40 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3687 9466 3660 9579 3677 9586 3700 9516
      3700 9471
TIME...MOT...LOC 1813Z 250DEG 43KT 3672 9572

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	58 min
Jun 13, 4:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	65 min
Jun 13, 5:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	26 min
Jun 13, 5:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	42 min
Jun 13, 6:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa	61 min
Jun 13, 8:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Muskogee	42 hr
Jun 13, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Ottawa	64 min
Jun 13, 2:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Nowata	24 hr
Jun 13, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	26 min
Jun 13, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa	34 min
Jun 13, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	65 min
Jun 13, 4:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	22 hr
Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Mayes	30 min
Jun 13, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	62 min
Jun 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	65 min
Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner	58 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Okmulgee	31 min
Jun 13, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	64 min
Jun 13, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	46 min
Jun 13, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	59 min
Jun 13, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Carroll	34 min
Jun 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin	37 min

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.