Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2012, 3:01 PM CDT for Craig County, Nowata County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 7, 2012, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:07 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | South Coffeyville, OK | SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN BY STORM. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
546
WUUS54 KTSA 072001
SVRTSA
OKC035-105-072045-
/O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0247.120907T2001Z-120907T2045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
301 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CRAIG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHERN NOWATA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 259 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF
SOUTH COFFEYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
DAMAGING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SOUTH
COFFEYVILLE...LENAPAH AND WELCH.
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 3697 9504 3695 9499 3681 9500 3684 9581
3694 9581 3695 9579 3699 9578 3700 9502
TIME...MOT...LOC 2001Z 283DEG 52KT 3697 9564
$$1 follow-up statement
162
WWUS54 KTSA 072021
SVSTSA
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
321 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012
OKC035-105-072045-
/O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0247.000000T0000Z-120907T2045Z/
CRAIG OK-NOWATA OK-
321 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2012
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR
NORTHERN NOWATA AND NORTHERN CRAIG COUNTIES...
AT 316 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF
HOLLOW...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
DAMAGING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HOLLOW AND
WELCH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
MOBILE HOMES AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO
HIGH WINDS AND MAY BE OVERTURNED.
&&
LAT...LON 3700 9502 3697 9504 3695 9500 3693 9499
3692 9500 3690 9499 3681 9501 3684 9576
3699 9572
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 283DEG 52KT 3690 9532
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 3:22 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | TSA | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Okfuskee and 7 more | 17 hr |
| Sep 7, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 41 min |
| Sep 7, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 28 min |
| Sep 7, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 50 min |
| Sep 7, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 3:47 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Mayes, Muskogee and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 17 min |
| Sep 7, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes | 51 min |
| Sep 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 35 min |
| Sep 7, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 39 min |
| Sep 7, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 52 min |
| Sep 7, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 59 min |
| Sep 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 24 min |
| Sep 7, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 38 min |
| Sep 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 34 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.