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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 9, 2011LeFlore County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2011, 6:13 AM CDT for LeFlore 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
Aug 9, 2011, 6:13 AM CDT (11:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2011, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

County LeFlore County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 247 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2011-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2011-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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.

407 
WWUS84 KTSA 091113
SPSTSA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
613 AM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011

OKZ076-091145-
LE FLORE OK-
613 AM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     SOUTHEASTERN LE FLORE

AT 613 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER BIG CEDAR...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY
THIS STORM INCLUDE...BIG CEDAR.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.

LAT...LON 3461 9476 3477 9466 3469 9445 3455 9445
      3451 9446 3450 9447 3450 9453
TIME...MOT...LOC 1113Z 299DEG 27KT 3465 9461

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Pawnee65 min
Aug 8, 7:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOsage59 min
Aug 8, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa65 min
Aug 8, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner62 min
Aug 8, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACraig, Ottawa38 min
Aug 8, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner58 min
Aug 8, 9:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSADelaware, Mayes25 min
Aug 8, 9:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAOttawa37 min
Aug 8, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSADelaware66 min
Aug 8, 9:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah66 min
Aug 8, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore, Muskogee, Sequoyah66 min
Aug 9, 3:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMuskogee50 min
Aug 9, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg53 min
Aug 9, 3:36 AM CDTExcessive Heat WatchTSAChoctaw, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha12 hr
Aug 9, 4:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell, LeFlore54 min
Aug 9, 5:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer, LeFlore39 min
Aug 8, 7:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll31 min
Aug 8, 7:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton34 min
Aug 8, 7:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton33 min
Aug 8, 8:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll31 min
Aug 8, 8:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll38 min
Aug 8, 10:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll51 min
Aug 8, 10:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMadison46 min
Aug 8, 10:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMadison29 min
Aug 8, 10:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACrawford, Sebastian35 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.