Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT for Creek County, Okmulgee County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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
- May 29, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Creek County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:44 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | Beggs, OK | |
| May 29, 8:49 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | 4 W Hectorville, OK | MEASURED 58 MPH WIND GUST AT THE HECTORVILLE MESONET. |
| May 29, 8:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 65 | 2 S Glenpool, OK | THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST ESTIMATED TO 65 MPH AT HWY 75 AND 161ST SOUTH. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.
046 WUUS54 KTSA 300130 SVRTSA OKC037-111-143-300215- /O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0088.120530T0130Z-120530T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 830 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA NORTHWESTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF SLICK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... QUARTER SIZE HAIL... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... KELLYVILLE...BEGGS...MOUNDS...KIEFER...PRESTON AND GLENPOOL. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 198 AND 204. 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 3600 9592 3565 9599 3567 9642 3597 9627 TIME...MOT...LOC 0131Z 265DEG 21KT 3583 9623 $$
1 follow-up statement
736 WWUS54 KTSA 300151 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 851 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 OKC037-111-143-300215- /O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0088.000000T0000Z-120530T0215Z/ CREEK OK-OKMULGEE OK-TULSA OK- 851 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN TULSA...NORTHWESTERN OKMULGEE AND EASTERN CREEK COUNTIES... AT 848 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNDS... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... QUARTER SIZE HAIL... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MOUNDS... KIEFER...PRESTON...GLENPOOL...LIBERTY AND TULSA. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 200 AND 204. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. && LAT...LON 3569 9633 3597 9627 3600 9592 3565 9599 TIME...MOT...LOC 0151Z 265DEG 21KT 3584 9609 $$
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, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 43 min |
| May 29, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 35 min |
| May 29, 8:40 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 |
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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.