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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2011, 2:28 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 3, 2011, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2011, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Latimer County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 518 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2097 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 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 Jul 3, 12:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 12:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 101 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-041000- 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- 101 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011 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 NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AND FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ONSET...3 PM. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...ELEVATED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WES CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ONSET...ONGOING. FIRE WEATHER DANGER. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...WEST OF HIGHWAY 75. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN REACH 100 TO 104 DEGREES ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL CLOSELY MIRROR TEMPERATURES DUE TO LOW HUMIDITY LEVELS AND REMAIN SHORT OF 105. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON MOST ANYWHERE...THOUGH THE HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WILL BE THE MOST FAVORED AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT. WHILE THEY WILL BE SHORT LIVED...ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT CAN DEVELOP WOULD HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...DANGEROUS HEAT POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THE MASSIVE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHERN STATES MAY BUCKLE JUST ENOUGH TO ALLOW A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO REACH NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS MONDAY. OTHERWISE...SMALL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WILL DEPEND ON OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY IN KANSAS OR MISSOURI OR ISOLATED...PRIMARILY TERRAIN INDUCED STORMS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN HOT THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:26 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
226 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011
OKZ049-032000-
PUSHMATAHA OK-
226 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA
AT 226 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF ALBION...DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL
BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALBION.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.
LAT...LON 3464 9495 3454 9504 3463 9515 3468 9509
TIME...MOT...LOC 1926Z 299DEG 3KT 3462 9505Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
228 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011
OKZ075-032000-
LATIMER OK-
228 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
CENTRAL LATIMER
AT 228 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF DAMON...STATIONARY. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS
STORM INCLUDE...DAMON.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 45 MPH.
LAT...LON 3487 9518 3476 9522 3480 9538 3490 9532
TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 270DEG 1KT 3483 9529The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 34 min |
| Jul 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 27 min |
| Jul 3, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 48 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2011Every 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.