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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

April 3, 2012Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2012, 7:27 AM CDT for Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 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: Apr 3, 2012, 7:27 AM CDT (12:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2012, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Pittsburg County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 256 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1395 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 356 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Apr 3, 6:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 5:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 7:27 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	60 min
Apr 3, 8:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	60 min
Apr 3, 9:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	116 min
Apr 3, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	44 min
Apr 3, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pittsburg	40 min
Apr 3, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer	42 min
Apr 3, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	36 min
Apr 3, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Haskell	51 min
Apr 3, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Sequoyah	46 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.