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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 16, 2011Nowata County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2011, 3:52 PM CDT for Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 23 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 16, 2011, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2011, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Nowata County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 2811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 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 Jun 16, 3:12 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:12 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
312 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

.DISCUSSION...
CONVECTIVE COMPLEX CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
THIS AFTERNOON WITH AN OVERALL WEAKENING TREND NOTED OVER PAST
HOUR OR SO. THIS WILL HELP TO REINFORCE SFC BOUNDARY EXTENDING
FROM WEST CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND THE ARKANSAS
RIVER VALLEY. STORMS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP OVER THE HIGH PLAINS
AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND SOME ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR
ALIGN ABOVE MENTIONED BOUNDARY THROUGH THE NIGHT. MID LEVEL TEMPS
WILL CONTINUE TO WARM AND BOUNDARY MAY DRIFT A LITTLE NORTH DURING
THE NIGHT. HOWEVER ITS PRESENCE DOES WARRANT AT LEAST SMALL
CHANCES OF ADDITIONAL STORMS THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN
AREAS. PRE FIRST PERIOD WILL BE ADDED TO ZFP TO ACCOUNT FOR HIGH
POPS THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON...BUT MAJORITY OF CURRENT ACTIVITY
SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA BY 00Z.

SFC BOUNDARY WILL ULTIMATELY MOVE NORTH OF THE AREA FRIDAY...
THOUGH NOT BY MUCH AND THUS THERE REMAINS A NON-ZERO CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EACH OF THE NEXT FEW DAYS ACROSS NORTHEASTERN AREAS.
DOES APPEAR THAT A MORE EXTENSIVE CAP WILL SPREAD OVER THE REGION
AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS SO THE CONFIDENCE LEVEL IS LOW IN ANY
ACTIVITY THIS FAR SOUTH...THUS WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY FRIDAY
THROUGH SUNDAY WITH HOTTER TEMPS DURING THAT TIME. SOME TRIPLE
DIGIT HIGHS POSSIBLE OVER WESTERN SECTIONS WITH HEAT ADVISORY
LEVELS MET LOCALLY.

STRONGER UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
PLAINS NEXT WEEK AND PUSH FRONT BACK TOWARD THE AREA BY TUESDAY.
THIS BOUNDARY WILL LIKELY BE PRESENT MUCH OF NEXT WEEK SOMEWHERE
IN THE VICINITY WITH INCREASING CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TUE/WED. INCREASED CLOUDS AND PRECIP WILL ALSO BRING
TEMPS BACK MORE TO NORMAL LEVELS FOR FOR JUNE...MAYBE EVEN BELOW
NORMAL FOR A CHANGE.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
TUL   76  98  77  98 /  20  10  10  10
FSM   72  97  74  98 /  20  10  10  10
MLC   76  97  78  99 /  10  10  10  10
BVO   74  99  72  99 /  30  10  10  10
FYV   69  93  72  94 /  20  10  10  10
BYV   69  93  72  94 /  20  10  10  10
MKO   72  96  74  98 /  20  10  10  10
MIO   73  94  74  95 /  30  10  10  10
F10   74  97  75  99 /  10  10  10  10
HHW   75  98  76  98 /  10  10  10  10

&&

.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OK...NONE.
AR...NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...23
LONG TERM....14

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1256 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

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-
100 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL INCREASES THIS AFTERNOON...

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
	RISK...SIGNIFICANT.
	AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...AFTER 1 PM.

FLASH FLOOD.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON.

DANGEROUS HEAT.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

SIGNIFICANT WINDS.
	RISK...LIMITED.
	AREA...NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
	ONSET...ONGOING.

DISCUSSION...
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON...AND EVENTUALLY TRACK INTO
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON.  DAMAGING WINDS WILL
BE THE PRIMARY RISK...WITH LOCALIZED RISK OF LARGE HAIL.
THIS DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO MOVE
EAST OF THE AREA BY MID EVENING...WITH A DECREASING RISK
OF SEVERE WEATHER.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING...WHICH RAISES THE RISK OF LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING
ESPECIALLY FOR AREAS WHICH RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL THIS MORNING.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS ACROSS FAR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WILL SUBSIDE
THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ANY ADDITIONAL STRONG WINDS BEING
THE RESULT OF THUNDERSTORMS.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK IS POSSIBLE IF
THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT BECOMES WIDESPREAD.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...HIGH WIND POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
SUNDAY...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
MONDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL.

EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY
WITH TEMPERATURES WARMING WELL ABOVE NORMAL.  THIS WILL
PRODUCE HIGH HEAT INDEX VALUES AND CAUTION SHOULD BE
EXERCISED IF OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ARE EXPECTED. THE DANGEROUS
HEAT WILL CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK.  THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES WILL INCREASE FOR THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK
AS THE NEXT FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHES.

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
219 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

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

0200 PM     TSTM WND GST     COPAN                   36.90N 95.93W
06/16/2011  E60 MPH          WASHINGTON         OK   POST OFFICE

            ESTIMATED 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. TIME
            ESTIMATED VIA RADAR.

&&

KAH

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
248 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

OKZ054>057-060-061-064-067-162045-
CRAIG OK-CREEK OK-NOWATA OK-OSAGE OK-ROGERS OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER
OK-WASHINGTON OK-
248 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     WESTERN CRAIG...NORTHEASTERN CREEK...NOWATA...SOUTHEASTERN
     OSAGE...ROGERS...TULSA...NORTHWESTERN WAGONER AND WASHINGTON

AT 248 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM DEWEY TO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF AVANT TO 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SPERRY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL
BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...TULSA...GRAY...NOWATA...
DELAWARE...LENAPAH...WATOVA...NEW ALLUWE...CLAREMORE...CATOOSA...
VERDIGRIS...FOYIL...OOLOGAH...BUSHYHEAD...TALALA...AVANT...WOLCO...
SAND SPRINGS...JENKS...OWASSO...SPERRY...SKIATOOK...COLLINSVILLE...
BROKEN ARROW...BARTLESVILLE...VERA...RAMONA...OCHELATA...DEWEY AND
CENTRALIA.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THESE
STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. RESIDENTS
IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3691 9529 3618 9560 3597 9576 3598 9605
      3606 9628 3689 9600
TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 273DEG 25KT 3680 9588 3651 9597
          3625 9607

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:58 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
258 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

OKZ054-162030-
OSAGE OK-
258 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     WESTERN OSAGE

AT 258 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF
APPERSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...BURBANK AND APPERSON.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.

LAT...LON 3670 9705 3669 9694 3675 9689 3675 9683
      3678 9679 3676 9665 3650 9685 3654 9694
      3656 9693 3656 9689 3659 9691 3658 9700
      3661 9706 3668 9707
TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 296DEG 22KT 3669 9700

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:04 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
304 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

OKZ057-062-063-162030-
CRAIG OK-DELAWARE OK-MAYES OK-
304 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     SOUTHEASTERN CRAIG...WESTERN DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MAYES

AT 304 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES EAST OF
PENSACOLA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...CHLOETA...CLEORA...KETCHUM...
SPAVINAW...STRANG...PENSACOLA...LANGLEY...DISNEY...SPAVINAW STATE
PARK...CHEROKEE STATE PARK AND DISNEY LITTLE BLUE STATE PARK.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. RESIDENTS
IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3660 9497 3637 9491 3636 9512 3650 9519
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 248DEG 10KT 3646 9509

Local storm report, Jun 16, 3:31 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
331 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

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

0330 PM     HAIL             3 W OWASSO              36.27N 95.91W
06/16/2011  E0.75 INCH       TULSA              OK   PUBLIC

&&

KAH

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:52 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
352 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

OKZ055-056-162115-
NOWATA OK-WASHINGTON OK-
352 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     CENTRAL NOWATA AND WASHINGTON

AT 352 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF WANN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED
BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...NOWATA...DELAWARE...LENAPAH...WANN AND DEWEY.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.

LAT...LON 3691 9553 3666 9553 3678 9596 3693 9590
TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 284DEG 28KT 3684 9582

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	64 min
Jun 16, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa	62 min
Jun 16, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage and 3 more	63 min
Jun 16, 6:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee, Rogers, Sequoyah and 1 more	55 min
Jun 16, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	37 min
Jun 16, 7:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	26 min
Jun 16, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	15 min
Jun 16, 11:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	54 min
Jun 16, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	59 min
Jun 16, 1:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Washington	27 min
Jun 16, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Washington	51 min
Jun 16, 2:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	26 min
Jun 16, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Osage	28 min
Jun 16, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	57 min
Jun 16, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Kay	32 min
Jun 16, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	26 min
Jun 16, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware, Mayes	28 min
Jun 16, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	28 min
Jun 16, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	36 min
Jun 16, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Delaware	24 min
Jun 16, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	30 min
Jun 16, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	37 min
Jun 16, 7:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	49 min
Jun 16, 10:23 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	4 hr
Jun 16, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	32 min
Jun 16, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	34 min

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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.