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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 10, 2012Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 10, 2012, 6:04 PM CDT for Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 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 10, 2012, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK

County Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 846 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 908 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -31 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 Jul 10, 5:19 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 5:19 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 4:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 2:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
249 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2012

ARZ020-029-102015-
FRANKLIN AR-SEBASTIAN AR-
249 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
     SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHEASTERN SEBASTIAN

AT 249 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF
VESTA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...CHARLESTON...BRANCH...URSULA...PETER
PENDER...VESTA...CECIL AND BLOOMER.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.

LAT...LON 3523 9392 3524 9421 3545 9406 3546 9403
      3547 9405 3548 9404 3546 9390
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 024DEG 12KT 3536 9400

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
310 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2012

ARZ020-029-102045-
FRANKLIN AR-SEBASTIAN AR-
310 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
     SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN AND SEBASTIAN

AT 310 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES WEST OF
CHARLESTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...CROSSROADS...MILLTOWN...
CHARLESTON...BRANCH...URSULA...GREENWOOD...LAVACA...HUNTINGTON...
DAYTON...WITCHERVILLE...WASHBURN...BURNVILLE...EXCELSIOR...FORT
CHAFFEE AND BLOOMER.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.

LAT...LON 3523 9399 3522 9402 3518 9402 3513 9406
      3514 9413 3510 9413 3510 9414 3506 9424
      3515 9438 3541 9411 3530 9393
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 037DEG 17KT 3528 9408

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
318 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2012

ARZ019-020-029-102045-
CRAWFORD AR-FRANKLIN AR-SEBASTIAN AR-
318 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
     SOUTHEASTERN CRAWFORD

IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
     WESTERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHEASTERN SEBASTIAN

AT 318 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF
MULBERRY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...PLEASANT HILL...MULBERRY...URSULA...
VESTA...LAVACA...KIBLER AND DYER.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH.

LAT...LON 3527 9409 3542 9430 3555 9408 3544 9394
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 046DEG 13KT 3545 9408

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 10, 6:04 PM 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
Jul 9, 7:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Pushmataha	23 min
Jul 10, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	30 min
Jul 10, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Muskogee	30 min
Jul 10, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okfuskee	31 min
Jul 10, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Okmulgee	33 min
Jul 10, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Choctaw	36 min
Jul 9, 10:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	46 min
Jul 9, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	50 min
Jul 10, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	25 min
Jul 10, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Franklin	26 min
Jul 10, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	35 min
Jul 10, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Crawford	27 min
Jul 10, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	Sebastian	33 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.