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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2012, 9:46 PM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 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 28, 2012, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2012, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Creek County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 3235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 May 28, 6:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 6:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 516 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-291000- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 515 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONSET...MID TO LATE EVENING OR OVERNIGHT. DISCUSSION... A CONDITIONALLY UNSTABLE MOIST AXIS FROM SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA THROUGH EASTERN OKLAHOMA TO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI IS EXPECTED TO ERUPT INTO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. MORE THAN AMPLE INSTABILITY... WITH MIXED LAYER CAPE VALUES OF 2500 TO 3500 J/KG WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY JUST MARGINAL SHEAR. THUS THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL...WITH DAMAGING WIND A LESSER THREAT. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... LOCAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL...HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. THURSDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS. SATURDAY...NO HAZARDS. SUNDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TO OUR WEST ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND ORGANIZE INTO CLUSTERS THAT MOVE ACROSS OUR REGION TUESDAY NIGHT. THERE WILL BE A LIMITED SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AN EVEN GREATER CHANCE FOR ONE OR MORE WELL ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES TO AFFECT OUR AREA WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE PLAINS IN NORTHWEST FLOW WHICH WILL AID IN OVERALL CONVECTIVE COVERAGE AND INTENSITY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE AND POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORM COMPLEXES AS THEY SWEEP SOUTHEAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 9:46 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 28, 10:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 62 min |
| May 28, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pawnee | 56 min |
| May 28, 10:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okfuskee | 54 min |
| May 28, 10:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Osage | 62 min |
| May 28, 10:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig | 54 min |
| May 28, 10:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Nowata | 47 min |
| May 28, 11:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 39 min |
| May 28, 11:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 47 min |
| May 28, 11:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig | 29 min |
| May 28, 11:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 33 min |
| May 29, 12:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig | 43 min |
| May 29, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 25 min |
| May 29, 12:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Wagoner | 37 min |
| May 29, 12:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 56 min |
| May 29, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah | 45 min |
| May 29, 5:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Delaware | 27 min |
| May 29, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 35 min |
| May 29, 1:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton | 36 min |
| May 29, 2:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Benton, Crawford, Washington | 40 min |
| May 29, 2:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll, Madison, Washington | 43 min |
| May 29, 3:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 39 min |
| May 29, 3:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 65 min |
| May 29, 5:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 37 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.