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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 15, 2010Choctaw County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2010, 3:16 AM CDT for Choctaw County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2010, 3:16 AM CDT (08:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2010, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Choctaw County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 43 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -413 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 304 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 11:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 11:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 7:38 PM CDT, 7 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 9:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 10:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 2:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:02 AM CDT, 14 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
Jun 14, 7:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	92 min
Jun 14, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	42 min
Jun 14, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	45 min
Jun 14, 7:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	9 days
Jun 14, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	48 min
Jun 14, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	41 min
Jun 14, 8:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	48 min
Jun 14, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	46 min
Jun 14, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	65 min
Jun 15, 12:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 7 more	2 hr
Jun 15, 1:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 5 more	2 hr
Jun 15, 1:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer	27 min
Jun 15, 2:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	62 min
Jun 15, 3:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	43 min
Jun 15, 3:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	38 min
Jun 15, 6:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and 7 more	10 hr
Jun 14, 9:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	50 min

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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.