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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Nov 7, 2011, 9:48 PM CST for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 27 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
- Nov 7, 2011, 9:48 PM CST (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 2011, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Creek County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1647 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
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 Nov 7, 9:09 PM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 7, 9:09 PM CST, 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 909 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011 ...UPDATE... .DISCUSSION... HAVE SENT OUT UPDATED ZONES A COUPLE OF TIMES THIS EVENING FOR TORNADO WATCH HEADLINES. ANGRY BOW ECHO IS CURRENTLY HEADED EASTWARD INTO CREEK... PAWNEE AND OSAGE COUNTIES. INSTABILITY DECREASES RAPIDLY TOWARD THE EAST... SO WEAKENING SHOULD OCCUR WITH TIME. ALREADY HAVE MAX POPS ACROSS THE AREA... SO NO ADDITIONAL UPDATE TO THE FORECAST WILL BE DONE AT THIS TIME. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 558 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011/ DISCUSSION... THE 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION IS INCLUDED BELOW. AVIATION... CONCERNING TAF SITES KTUL/KRVS/KBVO/KMLC/KXNA/KFYV/KFSM. A STRONG UPPER STORM SYSTEM WILL BE MOVING ACROSS OKLAHOMA OVER THE NEXT 24 HRS...AND WILL BRING UNSETTLED WEATHER IN THE FORM OF LOW CIGS AND PERIODS OF TSTMS TO THE TAF SITES. TRIED TO TIME THE BEST CHNCS AT EACH SITE WITHIN TEMPO GROUPS. CIGS SHOULD GRADUALLY LOWER AS WELL INTO THE SUB-2K RANGE OR POSSIBLY HIGH END IFR TOWARD 12Z. STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP EAST ACROSS ERN OK AND NW AR BTWN 18Z AND 00Z...WITH STORMS AND A WIND SHIFT TO THE SW EXPTD. LACY PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 249 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011/ DISCUSSION... MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS ON CONVECTIVE COVERAGE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING...AND POTENTIAL FLOODING/SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE AREA. HEAVIEST SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...WITH EXPECTED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS HAVING INITIATED WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THESE STORMS SHOULD FORM INTO A COMPLEX AND MOVE WESTWARD OVERNIGHT...PERHAPS POSING AN ISOLATED SEVERE THREAT TO AREAS WEST OF HIGHWAY 75 TONIGHT. THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT WILL BE MAINLY FOCUSED ACROSS AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44...WHERE TRAINING OF STORMS IS MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR ALONG THE FRONT. THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT ISSUING A FLASH FLOOD WATCH...BUT ULTIMATELY ELECTED NOT TO ISSUE ONE DUE TO RELATIVE LACK OF RAINFALL IN THAT AREA TODAY AND HIGHER FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES DUE TO ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF AN URBAN/SMALL STREAMS FLOOD ADVISORY OR EVEN A WARNING OR TWO BECOME NECESSARY...HOWEVER...DUE TO EXPECTED PRECIPITATION EFFICIENCY. THE COLD FRONT WILL ACCELERATE EASTWARD LATE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW AS THE UPPER LOW SWINGS ACROSS THE AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED ALONG THE FRONT TOMORROW. SEVERE THREAT TOMORROW SHOULD REMAIN LARGELY ISOLATED...WITH THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WINDS ACROSS FAR EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DUE TO FRONTAL TIMING. CLEARING SHOULD OCCUR FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST LATE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND INTO TOMORROW NIGHT AS THE DRY SLOT MOVES INTO THE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOL THROUGH THURSDAY...BEFORE SOUTH WINDS RETURN AND A STEADY WARMUP ENSUES INTO THE WEEKEND. MID RANGE MODELS DEPICT A FAIRLY QUICK BUT STRONG WAVE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA IN THE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...ALTHOUGH THE FORECAST TIMING HAS HAD LITTLE CONSISTENCY SO FAR. WILL BROADBRUSH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THE WHOLE AREA FROM SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY NIGHT FOR NOW. && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM...06 LONG TERM....99
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 7, 6:12 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
612 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-081100-
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-
612 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011
...SEVERE WEATHER LIKELY IN A PART OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
TORNADO.
RISK...LIMITED.
AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
ONSET...ONGOING.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
RISK...CRITICAL.
AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
ONSET...ONGOING.
AREA AT GREATEST RISK...COUNTIES BORDERING KANSAS.
HEAVY RAIN.
RISK...ELEVATED.
AREA...NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.
ONSET...ONGOING.
DISCUSSION...
UNSTABLE CONDITIONS HAVE STRETCHED ACROSS THE NORTHERNMOST
COUNTIES IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING. SEVERE STORMS... OR
LINES OF STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE... WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
THE GREATEST THREAT. THERE IS ALSO THE SLIM POSSIBILITY OF AN
ISOLATED TORNADO. THEREFORE... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL
1 AM FOR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA COUNTIES ALONG THE KANSAS BORDER...
AND ALSO PAWNEE COUNTY.
SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF THE REGIONAL SPOTTER NETWORK EXPECTED.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
TUESDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HIGH WIND POTENTIAL...HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...NO HAZARDS.
EXTENDED DISCUSSION...
STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ONGOING TUESDAY
MORNING ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA... AND WILL SPREAD EASTWARD
INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS BY LATE MORNING. AS STORMS MOVE FURTHER
EAST... THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK WILL INCREASE SOMEWHAT AS HIGHER
INSTABILITY IS ENCOUNTERED. FLOW ALOFT WILL BE STRONG AND SUPPORT POCKETS
OF DAMAGING WINDS WITHIN THE LINE OF STORMS. ONCE THE STORMS
PASS... A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH THE AREA BRING GUSTY
NORTHERLY WINDS AND SHARPLY COOLER TEMPERATURES.
DRY AND COOL WEATHER WILL PREVAIL THROUGH LATE WEEK... WITH
GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS AND WARMER TEMPERATURES EXPECTED
FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKEND.
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 5:15 PM CST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
515 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011
OKZ054-080000-
OSAGE OK-
515 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHWESTERN OSAGE
AT 515 PM CST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEBB CITY TO 23 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF BURBANK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
BURBANK...SHIDLER AND GRAINOLA.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 40 MPH.RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE
THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.
LAT...LON 3700 9654 3658 9673 3650 9700 3650 9701
3654 9699 3656 9691 3658 9690 3659 9692
3658 9700 3659 9706 3665 9707 3671 9703
3669 9695 3675 9689 3675 9683 3679 9676
3701 9675
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 225DEG 45KT 3693 9685 3655 9706Special weather statement, Nov 7, 7:03 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
703 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011
OKZ054-055-080145-
OSAGE OK-WASHINGTON OK-
703 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHERN OSAGE AND WASHINGTON
AT 703 PM CST...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTH OF HULAH TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF
FAIRFAX...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
WYNONA...PAWHUSKA...BIGHEART...OSAGE HILLS STATE PARK...COPAN...
DEWEY...HULAH AND OKESA.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND 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 3700 9579 3688 9582 3649 9632 3646 9672
3648 9670 3654 9673 3656 9678 3647 9687
3646 9695 3648 9701 3652 9701 3654 9699
3656 9690 3659 9692 3658 9701 3701 9644
TIME...MOT...LOC 0103Z 239DEG 28KT 3715 9593 3663 9661Local storm report, Nov 7, 9:30 PM CST, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
930 PM CST MON NOV 07 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0927 PM HAIL 1 E TERLTON 36.19N 96.47W
11/07/2011 E1.00 INCH PAWNEE OK TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 49 min |
| Nov 7, 7:03 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 42 min |
| Nov 7, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 63 min |
| Nov 7, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 59 min |
| Nov 7, 10:31 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| Nov 7, 10:42 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers | 63 min |
| Nov 7, 10:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek | 3 hr |
| Nov 7, 11:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Tulsa, Washington | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 12:06 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 54 min |
| Nov 8, 1:06 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee | 54 min |
| Nov 8, 1:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 53 min |
| Nov 8, 1:55 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 65 min |
| Nov 8, 2:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 61 min |
| Nov 8, 3:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pittsburg | 43 min |
| Nov 8, 8:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:58 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 47 min |
| Nov 8, 9:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell, Sequoyah | 44 min |
| Nov 8, 10:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Sequoyah | 43 min |
| Nov 8, 10:10 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 35 min |
| Nov 8, 10:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 23 min |
| Nov 8, 10:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 10:51 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 54 min |
| Nov 8, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 30 min |
| Nov 8, 11:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 37 min |
| Nov 8, 12:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 41 min |
| Nov 8, 12:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 31 min |
| Nov 8, 12:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 1:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 36 min |
| Nov 8, 1:37 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 23 hr |
| Nov 8, 1:37 PM CST | River Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 41 hr |
| Nov 8, 1:42 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 6 hr |
| Nov 8, 10:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 47 min |
| Nov 8, 11:30 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin | 45 min |
| Nov 8, 2:02 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Benton, Washington | 2 hr |
| Nov 8, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Madison, Washington | 12 min |
| Nov 8, 4:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 6 hr |
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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.