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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 3, 20116 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2011, 8:25 PM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2011, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 1294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 Jul 3, 5:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 5:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 5:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 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 9529

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
348 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011

OKZ073-032115-
PITTSBURG OK-
348 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

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

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     NORTHEASTERN PITTSBURG

AT 348 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF
FEATHERSTON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...FEATHERSTON.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH.

LAT...LON 3503 9557 3518 9553 3512 9536 3503 9536
TIME...MOT...LOC 2048Z 129DEG 4KT 3507 9542

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
415 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011

OKZ073-032145-
PITTSBURG OK-
415 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     NORTHEASTERN PITTSBURG

AT 416 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF
ARROWHEAD STATE PARK...STATIONARY. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...BLOCKER...FEATHERSTON AND ARROWHEAD
STATE PARK.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH.

LAT...LON 3521 9563 3524 9547 3504 9541 3503 9560
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 180DEG 0KT 3515 9554

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 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
Jul 3, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa and 1 more	42 min
Jul 3, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Craig, Creek, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee and 3 more	49 min
Jul 4, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	34 min
Jul 4, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	27 min
Jul 4, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	LeFlore	24 min
Jul 4, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	27 min
Jul 4, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	45 min
Jul 3, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Benton	41 min
Jul 3, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Madison	26 min
Jul 4, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Polk	28 min
Jul 4, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Polk	28 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.