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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 3:30 PM CDT for Latimer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 7, 2012, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
County Latimer County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
998
WWUS84 KTSA 072030
SPSTSA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
330 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012
OKZ049-075-072100-
LATIMER OK-PUSHMATAHA OK-
330 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
NORTHERN PUSHMATAHA AND SOUTHERN LATIMER
AT 330 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST
OF YANUSH...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...YANUSH...DAMON...TUSKAHOMA...
KIAMICHI AND SARDIS.
THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 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 3458 9517 3463 9544 3489 9534 3484 9512
TIME...MOT...LOC 2030Z 014DEG 8KT 3478 9526
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 1:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Pushmataha | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pushmataha | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | LeFlore | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Pushmataha | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | McIntosh | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Latimer | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Okmulgee | 17 min |
| Aug 7, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 6:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Sequoyah | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Madison | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Crawford | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TSA | Washington | 37 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.