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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 13, 2010Latimer County, McIntosh County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2010, 11:59 AM CDT for Latimer County, McIntosh County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 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: May 13, 2010, 11:59 AM CDT (16:59 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2010, 12:36 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Latimer County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 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 May 13, 11:38 AM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 11:38 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 8:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 13, 11:02 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 11:16 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 11:38 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 11:48 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 11:50 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1150 AM CDT THU MAY 13 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 AM     TSTM WND DMG     BRISTOW                 35.83N 96.39W
05/13/2010                   CREEK              OK   PUBLIC

            MULTIPLE TREES DOWN IN AND AROUND BRISTOW. STRUCTURE AT
            THE CORNER OF S.339TH W AVE AND W. 261ST STREET SOUTH HAD
            ROOF TORN OFF.

0435 AM     TSTM WND DMG     KELLYVILLE              35.94N 96.21W
05/13/2010                   CREEK              OK   PUBLIC

            SEVERAL HOMES SUSTAINED ROOF DAMAGE IN AND AROUND
            KELLYVILLE.

&&

RBD

Local storm report, May 13, 11:57 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1157 AM CDT THU MAY 13 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0550 AM     TSTM WND DMG     LEACH                   36.20N 94.92W
05/13/2010                   DELAWARE           OK   PUBLIC

            TREE LIMBS DOWN IN LEACH.

&&

RBD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	24 min
May 12, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	35 min
May 12, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	31 min
May 12, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	31 min
May 12, 11:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	51 min
May 12, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg	35 min
May 13, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Mayes, Muskogee, Wagoner	50 min
May 13, 12:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	25 min
May 13, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	61 min
May 13, 4:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee	50 min
May 13, 4:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Pawnee	44 min
May 13, 4:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers and 2 more	55 min
May 13, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	43 min
May 13, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 4 more	51 min
May 13, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers	53 min
May 13, 5:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	51 min
May 13, 5:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	30 min
May 13, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	68 min
May 13, 6:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh	40 min
May 13, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	18 min
May 13, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TSA	Ottawa	3 days
May 13, 11:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	42 min
May 13, 12:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Atoka	66 min
May 13, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	60 min
May 13, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Sequoyah	59 min
May 13, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	56 min
May 13, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	33 min
May 13, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	64 min
May 13, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	55 min
May 13, 2:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington	51 min
May 13, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	60 min
May 13, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Washington	45 min
May 13, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.