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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 17, 2011LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Crawford County, Franklin County, Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Oct 17, 2011, 10:31 PM CDT for LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Crawford County, Franklin County, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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
Oct 17, 2011, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 2011, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, LeFlore County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2011-10-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2011-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 328 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
328 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
542 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

507 
WWUS84 KTSA 180331
SPSTSA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1031 PM CDT MON OCT 17 2011

ARZ010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-076-180415-
CRAWFORD AR-FRANKLIN AR-LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-PUSHMATAHA
OK-SEBASTIAN AR-WASHINGTON AR-
1031 PM CDT MON OCT 17 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     CRAWFORD...SOUTHERN MADISON AND SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
     FRANKLIN AND SEBASTIAN

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     SOUTHEASTERN LE FLORE AND NORTHEASTERN PUSHMATAHA

AT 1031 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES WEST OF DELANEY TO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG
CEDAR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
MIDLAND...HARTFORD...FERN...GREENWOOD...LAVACA...MULBERRY...
BLOOMER...HUNTINGTON...BURNVILLE...MANSFIELD...SAINT PAUL...CASS...
CHARLESTON...WASHBURN...FORT CHAFFEE...BRANCH...PETTIGREW...OZARK...
BOSTON...WIEDERKEHR VILLAGE...ALTUS AND DENNING.

THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THESE
STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. RESIDENTS
IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

LAT...LON 3576 9352 3576 9369 3538 9370 3536 9375
      3540 9380 3532 9381 3532 9390 3523 9393
      3522 9402 3513 9404 3514 9413 3510 9414
      3507 9423 3496 9424 3492 9444 3451 9446
      3450 9500 3450 9501 3597 9408 3584 9352
TIME...MOT...LOC 0331Z 289DEG 25KT 3584 9395 3462 9467

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee64 min
Oct 17, 7:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek41 min
Oct 17, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg59 min
Oct 17, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner26 min
Oct 17, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer, Pittsburg38 min
Oct 17, 8:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACraig, Nowata, Ottawa39 min
Oct 17, 9:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha59 min
Oct 17, 9:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore28 min
Oct 17, 9:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw, LeFlore, Pushmataha46 min
Oct 18, 12:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSALatimer30 min
Oct 18, 4:10 PM CDTFreeze WatchTSAAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more12 hr
Oct 17, 7:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton47 min
Oct 17, 8:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSABenton65 min
Oct 17, 9:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll51 min
Oct 17, 10:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACarroll, Madison40 min

Nearby

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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.