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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2012, 11:21 PM CDT for Choctaw 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
- Jul 26, 2012, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2012, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Choctaw County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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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WWUS84 KTSA 270421
SPSTSA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1121 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2012
OKZ053-270445-
CHOCTAW OK-
1121 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
EASTERN CHOCTAW
AT 1121 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF
SAWYER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...ORD...FROGVILLE...SAWYER...FORT
TOWSON...SWINK...HUSKEY...FALLON...HUGO LAKE STATE PARK AND RAYMOND
GARY STATE PARK.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO 50 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE
THE SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS UPGRADED TO A WARNING.
LAT...LON 3388 9547 3387 9551 3390 9552 3416 9533
3414 9515 3393 9516 3395 9522 3393 9524
3389 9525 3387 9529 3388 9533 3387 9534
3386 9542
TIME...MOT...LOC 0421Z 300DEG 11KT 3396 9535
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 57 min |
| Jul 26, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Wagoner | 37 min |
| Jul 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okmulgee | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 7:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 7:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Mayes | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 8:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 8:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 9:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, Sequoyah | 28 min |
| Jul 27, 12:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Choctaw | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 1:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 3:41 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | TSA | Craig, Creek, Mayes, Muskogee, Nowata, Okfuskee and 6 more | 16 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:41 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 16 more | 9 days |
| Jul 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 13 more | 8 days |
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.