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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2012, 4:31 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 7, 2012, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Benton County, AR
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 1058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Jul 7, 3:41 PM CDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:41 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 102 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 2012 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-081000- 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- 102 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 2012 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. ONSET...THIS AFTERNOON. DANGEROUS HEAT. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS. ONSET..ONGOING. FIRE WEATHER DANGER. RISK...LIMITED. AREA...EASTERN OKLAHOMA. ONSET...ONGOING. DISCUSSION... EVEN WITH SOME RAINFALL TODAY... CONTINUED DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION WILL CREATE A LIMITED FIRE DANGER. BURN BANS REMAINS IN PLACE FOR A GROWING NUMBER OF COUNTIES. AND DESPITE THE RAINFALL... HOT CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TODAY. WITH SCATTERED PRECIPITATION IN THE AREA... ADDED HUMIDITY WILL KEEP HEAT INDICES HIGH AS WELL. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. THERE IS A RISK OF DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS WITH ANY OF THE STRONGER STORMS. THIS RISK WILL PEAK DURING MAXIMUM AFTERNOON HEATING AND WILL TAPER OFF INTO THIS EVENING. SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... LOCAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL. WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...NO HAZARDS. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA FROM SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO BE SCATTERED ALONG AND AROUND THE FRONT ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. WHILE THE OVERALL PATTERN DOES NOT FAVOR ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER... AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO NEAR SEVERE LEVELS. BY TUESDAY THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA NEAR THE FRONT. NO HAZARDS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE LAST HALF OF THE UPCOMING WEEK AS THE FRONT CLEARS THE AREA AND RESULTS IN SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 7, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
300 PM CDT SAT JUL 07 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0235 PM TSTM WND DMG FAYETTEVILLE 36.06N 94.16W
07/07/2012 WASHINGTON AR BROADCAST MEDIA
TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES DOWN ON WEST DEANE ST.
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JBMLocal storm report, Jul 7, 3:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
304 PM CDT SAT JUL 07 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0210 PM TSTM WND DMG BARLING 35.33N 94.30W
07/07/2012 SEBASTIAN AR BROADCAST MEDIA
LARGE TREE DOWN
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JBMLocal storm report, Jul 7, 3:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
312 PM CDT SAT JUL 07 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0305 PM TSTM WND DMG CHARLESTON 35.30N 94.04W
07/07/2012 FRANKLIN AR EMERGENCY MNGR
POWER LINES AND POLES DOWN ON ARKANSAS HIGHWAY 22.
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JBMLocal storm report, Jul 7, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 11:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Craig | 27 min |
| Jul 7, 2:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 1:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 23 min |
| Jul 7, 1:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 2:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 23 min |
| Jul 7, 2:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 2:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sebastian | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Madison, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Carroll | 35 min |
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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.