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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2008, 5:02 PM CDT for Franklin 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, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2008, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Franklin County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 455 PM CDT THU JUL 3 2008 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-041000- 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 THU JUL 3 2008 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. TORNADO. RISK...NONE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... LATE THIS AFTERNOON...A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM FAR NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA INTO SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA...GENERALLY ALONG THE I-44 CORRIDOR. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY THIS LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WHILE WIND PROFILES WILL REMAIN WEAK...ENOUGH INSTABILITY WILL BE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO THAT MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. ONGOING ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DISSIPATE WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. HOWEVER...AREAS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP LATER TONIGHT AS THE LOW-LEVEL JET INCREASES. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT EXPECTED GIVEN THE BREVITY AND ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER THAT MAY OCCUR INTO THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SUNDAY...NO HAZARDS. MONDAY...NO HAZARDS. TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... HE CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY LINGERS ACROSS THE AREA. A FEW AFTERNOON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE FRONT WILL WASH OUT ON SUNDAY...LEAVING HIGH PRESSURE IN CONTROL THROUGH MONDAY. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA ON TUESDAY BRINGING THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH IT. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION. $$
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 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 9465Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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</html>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, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 28 min |
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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.