Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2012, 5:39 PM CDT for Latimer County, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 8, 2012, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Latimer County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:42 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 W Mcalester, OK | POWER LINES DOWN AT HIGHWAY 270 JUST WEST OF THE INDIAN NATIONS TURNPIKE. |
| Aug 8, 5:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Mcalester, OK | METAL CARPORT BLOWN ONTO HIGHWAY 69 BYPASS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
029 WUUS54 KTSA 082239 CCA SVRTSA OKC077-121-082330- /O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0200.120808T2239Z-120808T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED TO INCLUDE MCALESTER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 539 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 530 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF KREBS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS CENTERED ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCALESTER ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... QUARTER SIZE HAIL... DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH... MINOR FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE... * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... MCALESTER...ALDERSON...HARTSHORNE AND HIGGINS. 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 3482 9527 3463 9562 3504 9595 3505 9551 TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 329DEG 12KT 3496 9561 $$
1 follow-up statement
710 WWUS54 KTSA 082306 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 606 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012 OKC077-121-082330- /O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0200.000000T0000Z-120808T2330Z/ PITTSBURG OK-LATIMER OK- 606 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN LATIMER AND SOUTHERN PITTSBURG COUNTIES... AT 605 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALDERSON... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH... MINOR FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE... SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...DOW... HAILEYVILLE...HARTSHORNE...GOWEN...DAMON AND HIGGINS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3482 9527 3463 9562 3504 9595 3505 9551 TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 329DEG 12KT 3485 9568 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 1:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 20 min |
| Aug 8, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 2:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 2:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 2:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 4:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | Pittsburg | 85 min |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 30 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.