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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2010, 3:41 PM CDT for Carroll County, Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 19 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 16, 2010, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2010, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carroll County, AR, Madison County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 932 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 16, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1253 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010 .AVIATION... CONCERNING TAF SITES KTUL/KRVS/KMLC/KXNA/KFYV/KFSM. CONVECTIVE COMPLEX MOVING INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AT THIS TIME WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY THIS AFTERNOON AS IT BUILDS EAST AND SOUTH. WILL CARRY TEMPO +TSRA FOR A COUPLE HOURS AT ALL SITES EXCEPT KMLC WHERE IT IS MORE UNCERTAIN WHETHER THEY WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE COMPLEX. ONCE THE STORMS CLEAR THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING...VFR CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO ALL SITES FOR THE REST OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1149 AM CDT WED JUN 16 2010/ DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MARCHING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA SEEM DESTINED TO CONTINUE EAST THIS AFTERNOON INTO A RATHER UNSTABLE AIRMASS THAT RESIDES ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. SOME UPTICK IN INTENSITY IS ALSO LIKELY AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. ALREADY SEEING DIURNAL CONVECTION FIRE AHEAD OF THE MAIN ACTIVITY AND THIS TREND WILL ALSO LIKELY CONTINUE. HAVE RAISED POPS CONSIDERABLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS A RESULT. ONLY LOWERED AFTERNOON MAXIMUMS A DEGREE OR TWO THOUGH AS CURRENT READINGS ARE ALREADY NOT FAR FROM THE FORECAST MAXIMUMS. UPDATE ON THE WAY. && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && AVIATION...05
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 1:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 102 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-171000- 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- 102 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... A COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ENTERING NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY THIS AFTERNOON AS THEY ENCOUNTER A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE LIKELY...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF AN OKEMAH TO POTEAU LINE...WITH WINDS TO 70 MILES AN HOUR AND HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE POSSIBLE. THE STORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA EARLY THIS EVENING ENDING THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDICES THIS AFTERNOON IN THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 100 SOUTHEAST OF THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK LIKELY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY... PRIMARILY WITHIN THE HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE TREND WILL BE TOWARD DRIER AND WARMER WEATHER INTO NEXT WEEK...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES POSSIBLY NEARING 100 DEGREES IN SOME PLACES. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
115 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010
OKZ054-059-064-161900-
CREEK OK-OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK-
115 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
SOUTHERN OSAGE...NORTHWESTERN CREEK AND PAWNEE
AT 115 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOMINY TO TERLTON TO 6 MILES WEST
OF OILTON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...OSAGE...HOMINY...JENNINGS...
TERLTON...HALLETT...CLEVELAND...WESTPORT...DRUMRIGHT...OILTON AND
MANNFORD.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THESE
STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. RESIDENTS
IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.
LAT...LON 3619 9662 3653 9658 3653 9619 3619 9627
3595 9640 3597 9663 3617 9664
TIME...MOT...LOC 1815Z 269DEG 9KT 3644 9647 3619 9650
3605 9669Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
201 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010
OKZ055-060-061-067-161945-
ROGERS OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK-WASHINGTON OK-
201 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2010
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
WESTERN WAGONER...WESTERN ROGERS...SOUTHERN WASHINGTON AND TULSA
AT 202 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF SKIATOOK TO TULSA TO 12 MILES
WEST OF GLENPOOL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...TULSA...CLAREMORE...
CATOOSA...VERDIGRIS...OOLOGAH...TALALA...BIXBY...JENKS...OWASSO...
GLENPOOL...SPERRY...SKIATOOK...COLLINSVILLE...BROKEN ARROW...VERA...
RAMONA...STONEBLUFF...COWETA AND ONETA.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.
LAT...LON 3659 9556 3587 9563 3587 9601 3597 9603
3627 9600 3654 9600
TIME...MOT...LOC 1902Z 247DEG 16KT 3648 9608 3623 9599
3591 9622Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:38 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Muskogee | 41 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 1:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 2:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 2:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 2:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers, Wagoner | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 25 min |
| Jun 16, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 12:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 4:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 25 min |
| Jun 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 4:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Carroll | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Benton, Washington | 115 min |
| Jun 16, 5:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 117 min |
| Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 5:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 4 hr |
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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.