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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Mar 8, 2012, 4:21 PM CST for Adair County, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 8, 2012, 4:21 PM CST (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2012, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS84 KTSA 082221
SPSTSA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
421 PM CST THU MAR 8 2012
ARZ010-019-OKZ068>070-072-082245-
ADAIR OK-CHEROKEE OK-CRAWFORD AR-MUSKOGEE OK-SEQUOYAH OK-WASHINGTON
AR-
421 PM CST THU MAR 8 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD AND SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
SOUTHERN CHEROKEE...NORTHEASTERN MUSKOGEE AND NORTHWESTERN
SEQUOYAH
IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
ADAIR
AT 421 PM CST...THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF PUMPKIN CENTER TO 3 MILES SOUTH OF ELDON TO 4
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOX...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BRUSHY
LAKE STATE PARK...MARBLE CITY...BUNCH...TAHLEQUAH...MARIETTA...
BARON...ADAIR STATE PARK...STILWELL...ELDON...PROCTOR...WESTVILLE...
CHRISTIE...CINCINNATI...LINCOLN AND WATTS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME TO PENNY SIZE HAIL.
LAT...LON 3570 9430 3546 9503 3567 9514 3584 9525
3585 9523 3588 9523 3614 9463 3612 9455
3610 9455 3609 9439
TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 245DEG 53KT 3581 9507 3589 9483
3556 9489
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:13 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 2:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 59 min |
| Mar 8, 3:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 3:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 3:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 4:47 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Creek | 28 min |
| Mar 8, 5:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 5:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 5:03 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 1:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 37 min |
| Mar 8, 4:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 4:52 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.