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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 26, 2012Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2012, 6:37 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 68 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2012, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2012, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 26, 7:00 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 68	Hugo, OK
Jul 26, 7:50 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 S Fort Towson, OK	SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN...TWO ON HOMES NEAR RAYMOND GARY STATE PARK.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 1164 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 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.

422 
WUUS54 KTSA 262337
SVRTSA
OKC023-127-270045-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0166.120726T2337Z-120727T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
637 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 636 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF BOSWELL TO 11 MILES EAST OF
  CLOUDY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

  STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
  QUARTER SIZE HAIL...
  WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  ANTLERS...CLOUDY...KELLOND...KOSOMA AND MOYERS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

&&

LAT...LON 3389 9551 3388 9555 3393 9559 3388 9569
      3389 9575 3386 9577 3386 9581 3393 9593
      3412 9594 3416 9598 3417 9578 3434 9578
      3444 9504 3424 9504 3423 9514 3393 9516
      3395 9522 3388 9526 3386 9539
TIME...MOT...LOC 2338Z 222DEG 8KT 3414 9590 3427 9509

$$

1 follow-up statement

703 
WWUS54 KTSA 270010
SVSTSA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
710 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2012

OKC023-127-270045-
/O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-120727T0045Z/
CHOCTAW OK-PUSHMATAHA OK-
710 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2012

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHERN PUSHMATAHA AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES...

AT 708 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF KELLOND TO GOODLAND TO SOBOL...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING 
DAMAGING WINDS TO 68 MPH AT HUGO. 

STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...

SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HUGO LAKE
STATE PARK...GOODLAND...KENT...HUGO...KELLOND...OLETA...KOSOMA...
FINLEY...MOYERS...CLOUDY...RATTAN...DELA...CORINNE...ANTLERS...
APPLE...SPEER...SOBOL AND MESSER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

PERSONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM SHOULD PREPARE FOR
LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE SERIOUS
INJURY AND SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER
IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
MOBILE HOMES AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO
HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED.

&&

LAT...LON 3389 9551 3388 9555 3393 9559 3388 9569
      3389 9575 3386 9577 3386 9581 3393 9593
      3412 9594 3416 9598 3417 9578 3434 9578
      3444 9504 3424 9504 3423 9514 3393 9516
      3395 9522 3388 9526 3386 9539
TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 222DEG 8KT 3426 9575 3397 9557
          3417 9515

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 3:11 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	TSA	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee and 3 more	16 hr
Jul 26, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	32 min
Jul 26, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee, Wagoner	63 min
Jul 26, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	59 min
Jul 26, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	61 min
Jul 26, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	57 min
Jul 26, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Latimer	26 min
Jul 26, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	20 min
Jul 26, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	63 min
Jul 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah	35 min
Jul 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Washington	31 min
Jul 26, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	67 min
Jul 26, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	58 min
Jul 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	60 min
Jul 26, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	34 min
Jul 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	32 min
Jul 26, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee	58 min
Jul 26, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, Pittsburg	60 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.