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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 31, 2010Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 31, 2010, 7:21 PM CDT for Wagoner County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 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 31, 2010, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2010, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 1875 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1427 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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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 Aug 31, 6:47 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 6:47 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 31, 4:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
433 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2010

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-010630-
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-
433 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2010

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
        ONSET...ONGOING.

DANGEROUS HEAT.
	RISK...ELEVATED.
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
        ONSET...ONGOING.

FIRE WEATHER DANGER.
	RISK...LIMITED
	AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

DISCUSSION...
WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED
OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA LATE THIS
AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD MOVE INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
BY EARLY EVENING. DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
THREAT IN THE STRONGER STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD
BEGIN TO DIMINISH LATER THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING.

THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY ARE COMBINING TO RAISE HEAT INDEX VALUES
INTO THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER PORTIONS
OF THE AREA. THE WARM TEMPERATURES...GUSTY SOUTH WINDS...AND DRY
FUELS WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR A LIMITED FIRE DANGER THREAT ACROSS
PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA THROUGH EARLY EVENING.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
LOCAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.
WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
THURSDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND HIGH FIRE WEATHER POTENTIAL.
FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...NO HAZARDS.
MONDAY...HIGH FIRE WEATHER POTENTIAL.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH
THURSDAY WITH A HOT AND HUMID ENVIRONMENT AHEAD OF A FRONT. THE
FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SWEEP SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION LATE THURSDAY
AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY NIGHT.  STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND DIRECTLY BEHIND THE
FRONT. A COOLER...AND DRIER AIR MASS WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION FOR
FRIDAY ON INTO THE WEEKEND BEHIND THE FRONT.

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
504 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2010

OKZ054-312230-
OSAGE OK-
504 PM CDT TUE AUG 31 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     FAR WESTERN OSAGE

AT 504 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF APPERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM 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 3671 9705 3670 9701 3670 9694 3676 9689
      3676 9683 3678 9681 3680 9674 3657 9682
      3657 9689 3660 9691 3658 9701 3660 9706
      3668 9708
TIME...MOT...LOC 2204Z 210DEG 18KT 3661 9701

Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 31, 6:42 PM CDT, 39 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
Aug 31, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	28 min
Aug 31, 7:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	53 min
Aug 31, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	19 min
Aug 31, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	34 min
Aug 31, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Cherokee	47 min
Aug 31, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Rogers	27 min
Aug 31, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	61 min
Aug 31, 8:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata, Washington	66 min
Aug 31, 9:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	2 hr
Aug 31, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	42 min
Sep 1, 6:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	33 min
Sep 1, 7:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Tulsa	26 min
Sep 1, 1:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington	114 min
Sep 1, 3:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	2 hr

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Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2010 Every 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.