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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2012, 8:57 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 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, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Muskogee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.
376 WUUS54 KTSA 300157 SVRTSA OKC101-111-143-145-300245- /O.NEW.KTSA.SV.W.0092.120530T0157Z-120530T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 857 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA NORTHEASTERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHEASTERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHWESTERN WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 856 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BALD HILL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... QUARTER SIZE HAIL... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BIXBY... BALD HILL...STONEBLUFF...HASKELL...BOYNTON...COWETA...TAFT AND PORTER. 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. VERY HEAVY RAINS MAY QUICKLY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS CREEKS... DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS AUTOMOBILES CAN QUICKLY STALL. && LAT...LON 3599 9600 3603 9547 3555 9554 3566 9606 TIME...MOT...LOC 0158Z 271DEG 31KT 3583 9590 $$
1 follow-up statement
706 WWUS54 KTSA 300235 SVSTSA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 935 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 OKC143-300245- /O.CAN.KTSA.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-120530T0245Z/ TULSA OK- 935 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN TULSA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... LAT...LON 3594 9575 3603 9547 3555 9554 3565 9598 TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 271DEG 31KT 3582 9551 $$ OKC101-111-145-300245- /O.CON.KTSA.SV.W.0092.000000T0000Z-120530T0245Z/ MUSKOGEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-WAGONER OK- 935 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN WAGONER...NORTHEASTERN OKMULGEE AND NORTHWESTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTIES... AT 930 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHOSKA... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH... . 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. VERY HEAVY RAINS MAY QUICKLY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS CREEKS... DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS AUTOMOBILES CAN QUICKLY STALL. && LAT...LON 3594 9575 3603 9547 3555 9554 3565 9598 TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 271DEG 31KT 3582 9551 $$
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, 8:30 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, 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.