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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2010, 5:21 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 39 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
- May 16, 2010, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2010, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 16, 3:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 500 AM CDT SUN MAY 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- 500 AM CDT SUN MAY 16 2010 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ONSET...AFTER 3 PM. FLASH FLOOD. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. HEAVY RAIN. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM THAT IS PUSHING INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THIS ACTIVITY...BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR THE RED RIVER BY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS BOUNDARY COULD BE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT BY LATE AFTERNOON. INSTABILITY AND OVERALL SHEAR APPEAR SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT AT LEAST A FEW SEVERE STORMS INTO THE EVENING HOURS...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... LOCAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. MONDAY...NO HAZARDS. TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THE UPPER PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO BECOME FAVORABLE FOR OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES...MAINLY BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHTS. THE ACTIVE PATTER WILL CONTINUE INTO THE LATE WEEK...WITH AN UPPER LEVEL LOW FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 5:21 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 16, 4:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Delaware | 2 hr |
| May 16, 5:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 50 min |
| May 16, 6:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 117 min |
| May 16, 12:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 55 min |
| May 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 23 min |
| May 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 75 min |
| May 16, 6:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Benton | 116 min |
| May 16, 7:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Washington | 116 min |
| May 16, 1:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 28 min |
| May 16, 1:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 63 min |
| May 16, 1:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin | 66 min |
| May 16, 1:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 34 min |
| May 16, 1:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 27 min |
| May 16, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 53 min |
| May 16, 2:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 36 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2010Every special weather statement 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.