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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2012, 8:17 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 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, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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.
321 WUUS54 KTSA 300117 SVRTSA OKC113-300200- /O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0086.120530T0117Z-120530T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 817 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 814 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF SHIDLER...MOVING NORTHEAST 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 3688 9655 3667 9645 3669 9672 3675 9673 TIME...MOT...LOC 0117Z 245DEG 12KT 3671 9663 $$
3 follow-up statements
184 WWUS54 KTSA 300127 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 827 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 OKC113-300200- /O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0086.000000T0000Z-120530T0200Z/ OSAGE OK- 827 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY... AT 822 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHIDLER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... THIS STORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3688 9655 3667 9645 3669 9672 3675 9673 TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 245DEG 12KT 3672 9659 $$
431 WWUS54 KTSA 300134 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 834 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 OKC113-300200- /O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0086.000000T0000Z-120530T0200Z/ OSAGE OK- 834 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY... AT 831 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST 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 3676 9661 3683 9653 3667 9645 3668 9661 TIME...MOT...LOC 0135Z 245DEG 12KT 3673 9656 $$
642 WWUS54 KTSA 300152 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 852 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 OKC113-300203- /O.EXP.KTSA.SV.W.0086.000000T0000Z-120530T0200Z/ OSAGE OK- 852 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 900 PM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM! LAT...LON 3676 9661 3683 9653 3667 9645 3668 9661 TIME...MOT...LOC 0153Z 245DEG 12KT 3676 9649 $$
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, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 41 min |
| May 29, 8:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 53 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.