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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 24, 2011Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2011, 8:02 PM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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 24, 2011, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2011, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Creek County, OK

The radar

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The text

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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 Aug 24, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 4:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 24, 4:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
433 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2011

OKZ056-242200-
NOWATA OK-
433 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     NOWATA

AT 433 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER LENAPAH...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY
THIS STORM INCLUDE...NOWATA...DELAWARE...LENAPAH AND NEW ALLUWE.

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

LAT...LON 3680 9543 3660 9543 3659 9548 3660 9561
      3686 9580 3697 9563
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 321DEG 26KT 3684 9564

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	35 min
Aug 24, 8:54 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	23 hr
Aug 24, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek	30 min
Aug 24, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.