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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Tulsa, OK

February 29, 201213 counties in Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this fire weather watch at Feb 29, 2012, 4:14 AM CST for 13 counties in Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 1, 2012, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 29, 2012, 4:14 AM CST (10:14 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 1, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 1, 2012, 3:30 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

Counties Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 461 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 2.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Feb 29, 3:49 AM CST, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 3:49 AM CST, 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 29, 3:44 AM CST, 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 28, 11:48 PM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1148 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012

OKZ067-068-070-290615-
CHEROKEE OK-MUSKOGEE OK-WAGONER OK-
1148 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
     WESTERN CHEROKEE AND NORTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     SOUTHEASTERN WAGONER

AT 1149 PM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CHOSKA...
MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PORTER...
TULLAHASSEE...WAGONER...OKAY...FORT GIBSON...SEQUOYAH STATE PARK AND
HULBERT.

THIS STORM 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 3607 9514 3580 9501 3576 9561 3586 9569
TIME...MOT...LOC 0549Z 254DEG 41KT 3584 9557

Special weather statement, Feb 29, 12:28 AM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1228 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

OKZ073-290700-
PITTSBURG OK-
1228 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     CENTRAL PITTSBURG

AT 1228 AM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTHWEST
OF HAYWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 75 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
MCALESTER...KREBS...ALDERSON...CROWDER...CANADIAN...ARROWHEAD STATE
PARK AND BLOCKER.

THIS STORM 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 3525 9554 3489 9552 3482 9596 3499 9602
TIME...MOT...LOC 0628Z 253DEG 65KT 3493 9588

Local storm report, Feb 29, 12:45 AM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 29, 12:58 AM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 29, 1:24 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 29, 1:45 AM CST, 2 hours 29 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
Feb 28, 9:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	44 min
Feb 28, 9:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Washington	64 min
Feb 28, 10:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	30 min
Feb 28, 10:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa	29 min
Feb 28, 10:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Ottawa, Washington	58 min
Feb 28, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner	48 min
Feb 28, 11:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Mayes	30 min
Feb 28, 11:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Ottawa	20 min
Feb 28, 11:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Wagoner	27 min
Feb 28, 11:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	52 min
Feb 28, 11:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner	48 min
Feb 29, 12:28 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	32 min
Feb 29, 12:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee	39 min
Feb 29, 12:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	32 min
Feb 29, 4:14 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	TSA	Craig, Nowata, Ottawa	14 hr
Feb 29, 12:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	15 min
Feb 29, 12:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	33 min
Feb 29, 1:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison, Washington	33 min
Feb 29, 1:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison, Washington	32 min
Feb 29, 1:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	30 min
Feb 29, 1:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	34 min
Feb 29, 1:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	15 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.