Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2012, 7:49 PM CDT for Osage County, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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
- May 29, 2012, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 2199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
239 WUUS54 KTSA 300049 SVRTSA OKC113-117-300130- /O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0085.120530T0049Z-120530T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 749 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA PAWNEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 748 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRFAX...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... QUARTER SIZE HAIL... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RALSTON AND FAIRFAX. 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 3667 9647 3641 9662 3656 9689 3669 9679 TIME...MOT...LOC 0050Z 286DEG 11KT 3660 9675 $$
1 follow-up statement
972 WWUS54 KTSA 300110 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 810 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 OKC113-117-300130- /O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0085.000000T0000Z-120530T0130Z/ OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK- 810 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PAWNEE AND CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTIES... AT 805 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FAIRFAX... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... QUARTER SIZE HAIL... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... THIS STORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3652 9678 3669 9674 3667 9647 3641 9662 TIME...MOT...LOC 0110Z 286DEG 11KT 3655 9666 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 49 min |
| May 29, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 48 min |
| May 29, 8:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 53 min |
| May 29, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 43 min |
| May 29, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 35 min |
| May 29, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa | 45 min |
| May 29, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 50 min |
| May 29, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 46 min |
| May 29, 8:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Tulsa | 41 min |
| May 29, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 28 min |
| May 29, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 48 min |
| May 29, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 27 min |
| May 29, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Muskogee | 46 min |
| May 29, 9:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 26 min |
| May 29, 9:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 36 min |
| May 29, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 44 min |
| May 29, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Mayes, Muskogee, Nowata | 55 min |
| May 29, 10:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 110 min |
| May 29, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 41 min |
| May 29, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 53 min |
| May 29, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 68 min |
| May 29, 10:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Ottawa | 36 min |
| May 29, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 45 min |
| May 29, 11:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 58 min |
| May 29, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 54 min |
| May 29, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 67 min |
| May 30, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 59 min |
Nearby
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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.