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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Apr 22, 2011, 8:35 PM CDT for Adair County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 25 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
- Apr 22, 2011, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Adair County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 2835 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.7
- Supercell composite
- 18.1
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 Apr 22, 6:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 6:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 646 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011 .AVIATION... CONCERNING TAF SITES KTUL/KRVS/KBVO/KMLC/KXNA/KFYV/KFSM. LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AT 00Z WITH AXIS FROM CENTRAL OK TO SW MO MOVING GRADUALLY EAST IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT. MVFR AND SOME IFR CONDITIONS WITH AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. OVERNIGHT THE FRONT STALLS AND MVFR CEILINGS BECOME WIDESPREAD. MORE SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY PRIMARILY NORTH OF THE STALLED FRONT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 217 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011/ DISCUSSION... PRE-FRONT CU CLOUD DEVELOPMENT FROM NEAR KCFV-KTUL-KSNL ON SOUTHEAST..HIGHLY LIKELY TO BREAK CAP AND ERUPT INTO SEVERE STORMS BY LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. EVENING OF STRONG / SEVERE THUNDER EASTERN OK INTO ADJACENT AR. FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO END UP SOUTHWEST NORTHEAST THROUGH THROUGH OKLAHOMA INTO SOUTHWEST MO/NORTHWEST CORNER AR. UPPER FLOW NEARLY PARALLEL TO THE FRONT THROUGH EASTER WEEKEND WELL INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS IS MET TEXTBOOK CLASSIC PROLONGED WET HEAVY RAIN PERIOD NEAR AND NORTH OF THE QUASI-STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THE OSCILLATING FRONTAL BOUNDARY PRESENTS TEMPERATURE CHALLENGES. THIS DROUGHT BUSTING PERIOD...AT LEAST EASTERN OK..WILL COME AT A PRICE. ABUNDANT CAPE... AND SHORT WAVE ENERGY IMPULSES WILL NOT ONLY MAKE RAIN..BUT PERIODS OF SEVERE STORMS AS WELL. AT THIS TIME TONIGHT...SUNDAY NIGHT... AND MONDAY WILL FEATURE HIGHEST RISK OF SEVERE STORMS. WILL HOLD ON FLOOD WATCH UNTIL AFTER THE INITIAL RAIN TONIGHT. PRIME HEAVY RAIN AXIS THE NEXT FEW DAYS VIA MODEL CONSENSUS WOULD BE NEAR INTERSTATE 44. FAR NORTH- EAST OK MOST AT RISK FOR EXCESSIVE RAIN THIS WEEKEND. STAY TUNED. GW && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 60 66 55 67 / 70 70 90 90 FSM 64 78 63 77 / 60 70 50 60 MLC 66 75 64 76 / 50 40 50 50 BVO 55 64 52 63 / 70 60 80 90 FYV 61 72 58 72 / 70 80 80 60 BYV 60 70 57 72 / 70 80 80 60 MKO 62 71 58 72 / 70 70 80 70 MIO 56 65 54 66 / 70 70 90 90 F10 62 70 57 72 / 70 70 70 70 HHW 68 81 68 81 / 30 30 30 40 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...21 LONG TERM....06 AVIATION...21
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 22, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 727 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-231000- 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- 727 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. TORNADO. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...SIGNIFICANT. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. 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... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING... GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT... WHICH CURRENTLY LIES PARALLEL AND ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES WITH THIS ACTIVITY... ALONG WITH VERY LARGE HAIL. AN UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL BRING MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT. WITH THE FRONT BECOMING STATIONARY THIS EVENING... THIS WILL ALLOW FOR TRAINING OF CELLS ALONG AND EITHER SIDE OF THE FRONT. THIS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO INCREASED RAINFALL TOTALS ACROSS SOME AREAS WITH THE POSSIBLY FLASH FLOODING OVERNIGHT. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SATURDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. SUNDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. MONDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. TUESDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. THURSDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THE UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS WEEKEND AND INTO MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT STALLS OVER THE REGION TONIGHT WILL LINGER THROUGH THE WEEKEND BEFORE A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE FINALLY PUSHES IT OFF TO THE SOUTH AND EAST MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. DURING THIS TIME...SEVERAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THERE WILL ALSO BE A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY FLOODING RAINS AS STORMS REPEATEDLY MOVE OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERAL ROUNDS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING AND POSSIBLY RIVER FLOODING. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 22, 8:14 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
814 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0813 PM HAIL 3 W WESTVILLE 35.99N 94.62W
04/22/2011 E0.75 INCH ADAIR OK EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
SFPLocal storm report, Apr 22, 8:15 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
815 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0745 PM HAIL 1 E TAHLEQUAH 35.92N 94.95W
04/22/2011 E1.00 INCH CHEROKEE OK PUBLIC
MOSTLY PEA TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL WITH A FEW STONES TO THE
SIZE OF QUARTERS.
&&
NMMLocal storm report, Apr 22, 8:26 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
826 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0825 PM HAIL WESTVILLE 35.99N 94.57W
04/22/2011 E1.00 INCH ADAIR OK LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
NMMLocal storm report, Apr 22, 8:27 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
827 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0826 PM HAIL WESTVILLE 35.99N 94.57W
04/22/2011 E1.00 INCH ADAIR OK EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
SFPLocal storm report, Apr 22, 8:31 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 22, 8:35 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
835 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011
ARZ010-OKZ069-230200-
ADAIR OK-WASHINGTON AR-
835 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
CENTRAL ADAIR
AT 836 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MARIETTA...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS
STORM INCLUDE...MARIETTA...STILWELL...BARON...WINSLOW...WEST FORK...
BLACKBURN...HOGEYE...STRICKLER...MORROW...BRENTWOOD...WOOLSEY...CLYDE
AND CANEHILL.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND 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 3595 9410 3577 9409 3579 9470 3592 9472
TIME...MOT...LOC 0136Z 267DEG 36KT 3585 9458The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 23 min |
| Apr 22, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 80 min |
| Apr 22, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 10:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 62 min |
| Apr 22, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 12:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 12:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 1:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 1:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 44 min |
| Apr 23, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 23 min |
| Apr 23, 1:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 2:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 37 min |
| Apr 23, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 2:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Wagoner | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 4:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 6:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 2:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 4 days |
| Apr 23, 2:47 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 50 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 13 more | 4 days |
| Apr 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 8:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 13 min |
| Apr 22, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 10:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 12:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 5:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 6:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 20 min |
| Apr 23, 7:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 9:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 11:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll | 4 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 3:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 10 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton, Washington | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 3:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 92 min |
| Apr 23, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 37 min |
| Apr 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Washington | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 10 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford | 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.