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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 10, 2011Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2011, 9:38 PM CDT for Creek 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2011, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2011, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Creek County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 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.

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: 588 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jun 10, 9:20 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 9:20 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 9:13 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 7:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
708 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2011

OKZ054-110045-
OSAGE OK-
708 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     NORTHWESTERN OSAGE

AT 708 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAINOLA TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
APPERSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...SHIDLER...APPERSON...WEBB CITY...
FORAKER AND GRAINOLA.

THESE STORMS 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 3700 9642 3657 9688 3657 9690 3659 9691
      3658 9700 3659 9706 3668 9707 3670 9705
      3669 9694 3675 9689 3675 9683 3679 9679
      3679 9676 3701 9675
TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 250DEG 26KT 3699 9674 3660 9714

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 9:38 PM CDT, 0 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
Jun 10, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	37 min
Jun 10, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	55 min
Jun 10, 8:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	53 min
Jun 11, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	40 min
Jun 11, 2:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	28 min
Jun 11, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	47 min
Jun 11, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	46 min
Jun 11, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	44 min
Jun 11, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	35 min
Jun 11, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	58 min
Jun 11, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	46 min
Jun 11, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	27 min
Jun 11, 5:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	LeFlore	3 hr
Jun 11, 5:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Haskell	2 hr
Jun 11, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	34 min
Jun 11, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	33 min
Jun 11, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	48 min
Jun 11, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	25 min
Jun 11, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	47 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.