Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2012, 8:32 PM CDT for Adair County, Cherokee County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 19, 2012, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2012, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
600 WUUS54 KTSA 200132 SVRTSA OKC001-021-135-200200- /O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0023.120320T0132Z-120320T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 832 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA NORTHWESTERN SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 829 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF LAKE TENKILLER STATE PARK...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... QUARTER SIZE HAIL... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... COOKSON...BUNCH...CHEROKEE LANDING STATE PARK...TAHLEQUAH... MARIETTA...ELDON...SCRAPER...WESTVILLE...PROCTOR...CHRISTIE AND BARON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3612 9495 3603 9454 3549 9485 3558 9509 TIME...MOT...LOC 0133Z 197DEG 42KT 3565 9491 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg | 23 min |
| Mar 19, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 8:21 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 25 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 56 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 2 more | 41 min |
| Mar 19, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 36 min |
| Mar 19, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 10:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 10 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 10 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 12 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Pittsburg and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 24 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 12 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 42 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 24 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 30 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Adair | 24 hr |
| Mar 20, 3:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata | 18 hr |
| Mar 20, 3:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 5 days |
| Mar 20, 3:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 24 hr |
| Mar 20, 3:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 3 days |
| Mar 20, 4:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 22 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 8 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 22 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:51 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 18 hr |
| Mar 20, 10:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 10:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 11:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 11:13 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 16 hr |
| Mar 20, 1:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Pittsburg and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 20, 1:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 8 hr |
| Mar 20, 1:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Creek, Muskogee, Nowata, Okmulgee, Osage and 4 more | 32 hr |
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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.