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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 3, 2008Washington County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2008, 3:17 PM CDT for Washington County, Arkansas. It was in force for 28 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: Jul 3, 2008, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2008, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Washington County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jul 3, 12:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 12:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 12:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:45 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
245 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2008

ARZ010-OKZ069-032015-
ADAIR OK-WASHINGTON AR-
245 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     WESTERN WASHINGTON

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     CENTRAL ADAIR

AT 245 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CHRISTIE...MOVING EAST AT 7 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...BARON...CHRISTIE...
WESTVILLE...SUMMERS AND CINCINNATI.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3608 9445 3584 9450 3587 9479 3610 9473
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 280DEG 6KT 3600 9465

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:17 PM CDT, 0 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
Jul 3, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Adair	30 min
Jul 3, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	63 min
Jul 3, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	55 min
Jul 3, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Arkansas, 2008 Every special weather statement 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.