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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 8, 2012Creek County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2012, 7:42 PM CDT for Creek County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 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 8, 2012, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2012, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK

County Creek County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2012-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 221 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 00:00Z on 2012-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

238 
WWUS84 KTSA 090042
SPSTSA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
742 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

OKZ064-090115-
CREEK OK-
742 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     CENTRAL CREEK

AT 740 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF SILVER CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...SILVER CITY.

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

SPECIAL NOTE TO AREA FIRE FIGHTERS... THIS STORM WILL RESULT IN A 
SHIFTING WIND PATTERN AND POSSIBLY BRIEF GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.  
RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAS PRODUCED SEVERAL DOWN BURSTS WITH
WINDS SPREADING OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS FROM THE CELL...BUT THE 
PRIMARY SURGE WAS HEADING TOWARD THE SOUTH-SOUTHWEST.


LAT...LON 3586 9636 3589 9659 3610 9650 3607 9633
TIME...MOT...LOC 0040Z 011DEG 19KT 3602 9645

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 7:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSACreek23 min
Aug 8, 7:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAMayes36 min
Aug 8, 7:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw44 min
Aug 8, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha58 min
Aug 8, 9:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSARogers34 min
Aug 9, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw55 min
Aug 9, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTSAChoctaw34 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.