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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 9, 2009Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2009, 1:07 AM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 23 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 9, 2009, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2009, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

County Osage County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 2009-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1026 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2009-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1026 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WWUS84 KTSA 090607
SPSTSA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
107 AM CDT THU JUL 9 2009

OKZ054-090630-
OSAGE OK-
107 AM CDT THU JUL 9 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     NORTHEASTERN OSAGE

AT 107 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES
NORTH OF PEARSONIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA...PEARSONIA AND
BIGHEART.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND 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 3683 9604 3664 9635 3693 9656 3700 9646
      3700 9633
TIME...MOT...LOC 0607Z 318DEG 18KT 3692 9640

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 1:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOsage44 min
Jul 9, 1:47 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTSAOsage118 min
Jul 9, 2:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAWashington46 min
Jul 9, 3:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOsage47 min
Jul 9, 4:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAPawnee39 min
Jul 9, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee53 min
Jul 9, 5:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek33 min
Jul 9, 6:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSATulsa46 min
Jul 9, 6:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okmulgee, Tulsa28 min
Jul 9, 4:15 PM CDTExcessive Heat WatchTSACherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Haskell, Latimer and 13 more23 hr
Jul 9, 4:15 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryTSACherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Haskell, Latimer and 13 more39 hr

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.