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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 19, 20096 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2009, 3:13 AM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 77 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
Aug 19, 2009, 3:13 AM CDT (08:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2009, 4:30 AM CDT
In force
77 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Creek County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 2009-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 450 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 2009-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
WWUS84 KTSA 190813
SPSTSA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
313 AM CDT WED AUG 19 2009

OKZ054-055-059-060-064>066-071-190930-
CREEK OK-MCINTOSH OK-OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK-TULSA
OK-WASHINGTON OK-
313 AM CDT WED AUG 19 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     OKMULGEE...WASHINGTON...OSAGE...CREEK...TULSA AND PAWNEE

IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
     OKFUSKEE

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     WESTERN MCINTOSH

AT 312 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF APPERSON TO 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BURBANK TO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHAMROCK TO 11 MILES 
SOUTHWEST OF BEARDEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. 

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS 
TO 50 MPH ACROSS MUCH OF THE ALERT AREA.

LAT...LON 3700 9619 3661 9591 3617 9582 3613 9576
      3586 9582 3573 9571 3521 9571 3520 9599
      3529 9599 3529 9643 3546 9645 3544 9656
      3538 9654 3540 9663 3616 9663 3616 9679
      3659 9690 3669 9699 3679 9676 3700 9674
TIME...MOT...LOC 0812Z 270DEG 35KT 3697 9708 3663 9683
          3594 9660 3525 9653

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 2:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek, Pawnee55 min
Aug 19, 4:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACraig, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Nowata, Pittsburg and 3 more56 min
Aug 19, 1:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSASequoyah47 min
Aug 19, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Sequoyah19 min
Aug 19, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Washington63 min
Aug 19, 2:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford35 min
Aug 19, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Franklin58 min
Aug 19, 2:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAFranklin48 min
Aug 19, 3:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAFranklin38 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.